[Python-ideas] Generators' and iterators' __add__ method

[Guido van Rossum]

It IS a bad idea.

--Guido van Rossum (sent from Android phone)
On Feb 15, 2012 8:50 AM, "Yuval Greenfield" <ubershmekel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>wrote:
>
>> It's been proposed many times, but always stumbled on the fact that
>> the iterator protocol doesn't have a standard implementation -- each
>> object implementing __next__ would have to be modified separately to
>> also support __add__.
>>
>>
>>
> If it isn't a bad idea then we can at least do generators and whatever we
> find in the standard lib.
>
> I think I extrapolate from your response that it isn't a bad idea. I'll
> work on a patch.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Yuval
>
>
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