[Python-3000] callable()

[Guido van Rossum]

On 7/20/06, Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at ewtllc.com> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >On 7/20/06, Walter Dörwald <walter at livinglogic.de> wrote:
> >>str and unicode don't have __iter__, list, tuple and dict do:

> >>Should that be fixed too?

> >Yes, please. (In Python 2.6 if you can.)

> Why is the a defect?  Have we abandoned the notion of SeqIter
> automatically wrapping any object with __getitem__()?

Actually, the autowrapping was intended a backwards compatibility measure.

We should make a conscious decision whether we should make it a
permanent feature or not. (I also think that the two-argument form
iter(function, sentinel) is not very successful or useful and might be
dropped, but that's a separate issue.)

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