[Python-Dev] defaultdict and on_missing()

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 2/28/06, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > PEP 342 opted to extend the generator API instead (using "send") and leave the
> > iterator protocol alone for the time being.
> 
> One of the main reasons for this was the backwards compatibility
> problems at the C level.

I'm really quite happy either way. Having the
functionality available in some way is the important
thing.

I'd still like to see next(x) / x.__next__() in
some form in 3.0 for the sake of consistency,
though.

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