[Python-ideas] discontinue iterable strings

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That would require strings to also not be sequences, or to totally drop the sequence protocol.  These are non-starters.  They *will not* happen.  Not they shouldn’t happen, or they probably won’t happen.  They cannot and will not happen.

 

That is a much bigger break than they were even willing to make between 2 and 3.

 

From: Python-ideas [mailto:python-ideas-bounces+tritium-list=sdamon.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Heger
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2016 4:52 PM
To: Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>
Cc: python-ideas <python-ideas at python.org>
Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] discontinue iterable strings

 

 

I was not proposing a character type, only that strings are not iterable:

 

for i in 'abc':

    print(i)

 

TypeError: 'str' object is not iterable

 

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