[Python-Dev] PEP 492: async/await in Python; version 4

[Ethan Furman]

On 05/01, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Yury Selivanov schrieb am 01.05.2015 um 20:52:

>> I don't like the idea of combining __next__ and __anext__.
>> In this case explicit is better than implicit.  __next__
>> returning coroutines is a perfectly normal thing for a
>> normal 'for' loop (it wouldn't to anything with them),
>> whereas 'async for' will interpret that differently, and
>> will try to await those coroutines.
> 
> Sure, but the difference is that one would have called __aiter__() first
> and the other __iter__(). Normally, either of the two would not exist, so
> using the wrong loop on an object will just fail. However, after we passed
> that barrier, we already know that the object that was returned is supposed
> to obey to the expected protocol, so it doesn't matter whether we call
> __next__() or name it __anext__(), except that the second requires us to
> duplicate an existing protocol.

If we must have __aiter__, then we may as well also have __anext__; besides
being more consistent, it also allows an object to be both a normol iterator
and an asynch iterator.

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~Ethan~