[Python-Dev] iterator API in Py3.0

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 03:45:03PM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 09:34 AM 3/4/2006 -0800, Anna Ravenscroft wrote:
> >I think this is a really good point. next() is supposed to get used, by 
> >coders, in regular code - so it shouldn't be __next__. I can understand 
> >the desire for both forms, although that seems it would clutter things up 
> >unnecessarily - particularly if the two do the same thing.
> 
> By this argument, we should be using ob.len() instead of len(ob), and 
> ob.iter() instead of iter(ob).

   Yes, I think it'd be more consistent and more object-oriented. After all
we've switched from string.split(x, y) to x.split(y)...

Oleg.
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