[Python-3000] Builtin iterator type

[George Sakkis]

On 11/14/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

> Uhuh.  And why would this more important than adding, say, Array,
> AtExit, Bz2, Cgi, CgiTB, Cmath, Code, Codecs, Collections, Copy, Csv,
> DateTime, Decimal, ElementTree, ErrNo, Ftplib, Gc, GetOpt, GetText,
> Glob, Gzip, HashLib, HMac, Inspect, Locale, Logging, Marshal, Math,
> Mmap, Operator, Os, OsPath, Pickle, Platform, Random, Re, Select,
> ShUtil, SmtpLib, Socket, Struct, SubProcess, Sys, TempFile, Threading,
> Time, Traceback, UnicodeData, UrlLib, UrlLib2, UrlParse, Warnings,
> WeakRef, XmlDom, XmlSax, ZipFile, or Zlib builtins?  Most of these are
> definitely used a lot more often than itertools in typical Python
> programs...
>
> </F>

I understand you are exaggerating (can't believe you are seriously
claiming that cmath or traceback are more frequently used than
itertools), but if your objection is on adding yet another builtin,
what would be the objection to boosting up the existing iter() to
provide  this extra functionality ? This might even be backwards
compatible (but even if it's not, that's not a main concern for
py-3k).

George