[Python-3000] PEP: rename it.next() to it.__next__(), add a next() built-in

[Greg Ewing]

Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

>     Just like getattr, two-argument next(iter, sentinel)
>     returns sentinel if StopException is caught.

+1. I've written a number of pieces of code where this
would have made things neater. Just about any place
where I've used .next() explicitly, in fact -- it
always seems awkward having to deal with StopIteration.

--
Greg