[Python-Dev] defaultdict and on_missing()

[Guido van Rossum]

On 2/27/06, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I wouldn't mind seeing one of the early ideas from PEP 340 being resurrected
> some day, such that the signature for the special method was "__next__(self,
> input)" and for the builtin "next(iterator, input=None)"
>
> That would go hand in hand with the idea of allowing the continue statement to
> accept an argument though.

Yup. The continue thing we might add in 2.6. The __next__ API in 3.0.

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