[Python-ideas] strings as iterables - from str.startswith taking any iterator instead of just tuple

[Amber Yust]

I'm thinking of it being analogous to the __getstate__ and __setstate__
dunders used by Pickle to allow customization of object creation.

On Sat Jan 04 2014 at 4:50:11 PM, Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Jan 5, 2014 12:08 AM, "Amber Yust" <amber.yust at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > __fromiter__, anyone?
>
> I'm unconvinced that it should be a dunder method. Do you expect it to be
> used like
>
>     fromiter(str, characters)
>
> ?
>
> However, +1 on the name, +0 on the idea.
>
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