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

Ka-Ping Yee python at zesty.ca
Wed Mar 7 01:36:40 CET 2007


On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Georg Brandl wrote:
> Ka-Ping Yee schrieb:
> > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >> Having now read this entire thread I am going to accept Ping's PEP.
> >> Adding the sentinel argument to the next() builtin was what did it for
> >> me: it neatly solves the problem if having to catch that StopIteration
> >> in 99% of the cases.
> >
> > Okay, this is checked in as PEP 3114.
>
> Patch is at http://python.org/sf/1675363.

Thanks for doing this work!


-- ?!ng


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