[Python-3000] PEP: rename it.next() to it.__next__(), add a next() built-in
Josiah Carlson
jcarlson at uci.edu
Mon Mar 5 20:10:58 CET 2007
Ka-Ping Yee <python-dev at zesty.ca> wrote:
>
> At Guido's prompting, I drafted the following PEP. How does it sound?
>
> Title: Renaming iterator.next() to iterator.__next__()
> ======================================================
It sounds and reads just fine, though I'm -1 on the change if only
because 1) it adds a builtin, 2) it renames a protocol method, making it
potentially difficult and/or buggy to write forward or backward
compatible code, 3) it smells like gratuitous breakage.
- Josiah
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