[Python-Dev] PEP 322: Reverse Iteration

Jeremy Fincher fincher.8 at osu.edu
Tue Nov 4 19:57:33 EST 2003


On Tuesday 04 November 2003 06:44 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >     for i, value in reversed(enumerate(listofnum)):
>
> Sorry, this doesn't work.  enumerate() returns an iterator, reversed()
> requires a sequence.

I believe the assumption is that enumerate (as well as the proposed irange) 
would grow an __reversed__ method to handle just that usage.

Jeremy



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