[Python-ideas] An ABC representing "Iterable, Sized, Container"

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Jul 21 19:58:50 EDT 2016


But there's already Container which means "supports __contains__".

Collection might cause confusing with the module name collections.

Otherwise either would be a good candidate...

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>
>> Ah. Well, there's no official term "reiterable" AFAIK. This confusion
>> also lies at the root of the issues I started with. So let's try to
>> find a new term!
>
>
> Container or Collection sounds about right to me.
>
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