[Python-Dev] Termination of two-arg iter()

[Fredrik Lundh]

tim wrote:

> The question is whether this is intentional:  for all other iterators Python
> supplies, StopIteration is a "sink state":  once an iterator raises
> StopIteration, calling its next() method any number of times again will just
> continue raising StopIteration.

except SRE's finditer method, that is (also reported on c.l.python)

> Or is that left up to the discretion of the iterator?

if you don't know, it probably is undefined, which means that SRE's
finditer does the best thing possible: accept a few misakes, and then
punish the poor fool who cannot follow instructions. (but to be nice,
cut them a bit more slack if they're to cheap to buy a real operating
system ;-)

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