[Python-ideas] Introduce collections.Reiterable

[Ethan Furman]

On 09/22/2013 12:04 PM, Neil Girdhar wrote:
> I'm with you on this.
>
> If you want an Iterable and you wrote __getitem__, then it's not too much to ask that you either write a trivial __iter__:

If you want to be in full compliance, sure.  But one of the nice things about Python is you aren't forced to write more 
than you need.  If I have objects that I want to have be equal to each other I can just write __eq__ -- I don't have to 
write __lt__, __gt__, __le__, nor __ge__.  And if I want to not equal to be the opposite of equal (as opposed to 
something weird) I don't even need to write __ne__ any more.

> or you write __len__ and inherit from collections.Sequence.

I don't like inheriting from any of the abc's (maybe I just haven't written a large enough framework yet).  And I'm not 
writing __len__ unless I plan on supporting len().

> We should deprecate the sequence protocol.

No, we shouldn't.

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~Ethan~