[Python-3000] Making strings non-iterable

[Ian Bicking]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:
>>Thus you would do:
>>
>>   for c in a_string.chars():
>>       print c
> 
> 
> Would this remove __getitem__? I believe I wouldn't want to give up s[0] as
> "the first character in s". That would make a string a thing where you can
> use [3] to access the third character, but still not iterable.

Definitely __getitem__ should stay, there's nothing wrong with that 
part.  str.__iter__ would raise NotImplemented.

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