[Python-ideas] Consider making enumerate a sequence if its argument is a sequence

Neil Girdhar mistersheik at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 19:18:44 CEST 2015


Ah good point.  Well, in the case of a sequence argument, an enumerate
object could be both a sequence and an iterator.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:15 PM Alexander Belopolsky <
alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> A Sequence is an Iterator.
>
>
> No, a Sequence is an Iterable, not an Iterator:
>
> >>> issubclass(collections.Sequence, collections.Iterator)
> False
> >>> issubclass(collections.Sequence, collections.Iterable)
> True
>
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