[Python-3000] Builtin iterator type

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

On Tuesday 14 November 2006 13:06, George Sakkis wrote:
 > I understand you are exaggerating (can't believe you are seriously
 > claiming that cmath or traceback are more frequently used than
 > itertools), 

I certainly use traceback far more than itertools.  I use traceback 
occaissionally, but I've never actually had reason to use itertools at all.

 > 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).

The real issue seems to be that there's no benefit.  Iterators are nice 
because they're composable; that doesn't make the compositions part of the 
iterator, though.


  -Fred

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