[PYTHON DB-SIG] database API

[Fredrik Lundh]

Greg writes:
> "Established OO patterns" ?? Excuse me, but I've been doing this
> stuff for a long time. I've never noticed any particular pattern.
> Python does not use iterators; therefore, introducing them is not a
> very Python-ish concept. Instead, Python iterates over a list using
> the "for" statement.
/.../
> Jim Fulton has suggested that the cursor object should respond to
> __getitem__ so it can be directly used in a for loop.

Which is exactly what at least I would call an iterator :-)

>From Design Patterns [GOF 1994]: "Iterator -- provide a way to access
the elements of an aggregate object sequencially without exposing its
underlying representation."

Cheers	/F

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