[Python-3000] Making strings non-iterable

[Simon Percivall]

On 13 apr 2006, at 20.01, Ian Bicking wrote:
> I propose that strings (unicode/text) shouldn't be iterable.   
> Seeing this:
>
> <ul>
>   <li> i
>   <li> t
>   <li> e
>   <li> m
>   <li>
>   <li> 1
> </ul>
>
> a few too many times... it's annoying.  Instead, I propose that  
> strings
> get a list-like view on their characters.  Oh synergy!
>
> Thus you would do:
>
>    for c in a_string.chars():
>        print c

The best scenario would be if strings were like they are now, except  
that
to iterate you'd have to write iter(strobj). This would obviously  
require
some changes to how iterability is determined, though.

//Simon