[Python-3000] Making strings non-iterable

Thomas Wouters thomas at python.org
Fri Apr 14 14:33:20 CEST 2006


On 4/14/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> > > a few too many times... it's annoying.  Instead, I propose that
> strings
> > > get a list-like view on their characters.  Oh synergy!
> >
> > Another +1 here.
>
> And a moderate +0.1 here (we need to research the consequences more).


We can  fairly easily make strings non-iterable in the p3yk branch (and
remove the default-iter in general), see how many tests it breaks ;P

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