[Python-ideas] having a "iterable" built-in

[Georg Brandl]

Tarek Ziadé schrieb:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy-noVtnmiAkQo at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> hasattr(ob, '__iter__')
>>
> 
> Right, that works under Python 3, (It won't cover str under Python 2 though)

The old-style iteration protocol (__getitem__ and __len__) has not
disappeared in Python 3.  It's just that str got its own iterator type.

Georg

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