[Python-Dev] PEP 340 -- loose ends

[Nick Coghlan]

Shane Holloway (IEEE) wrote:
> It might actually be workable in the transaction scenario, as well as 
> others.  I'm not sure if I love or hate the idea though.

Given that this is officially a violation of the iterator protocol. . . (check 
the docs for well-behaved iterators)

> Another thing.  In the specification of the Anonymous Block function, is 
> there a reason that "itr = EXPR1" instead of "itr = iter(EXPR1)"?  It 
> seems to be a dis-symmetry with the 'for' loop specification.

Indeed - and a deliberate one, at least partly to discourage caching of block 
iterators.

Cheers,
Nick.

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