[Python-ideas] Suggested MapView object (Re: __len__() for map())

[Chris Barker]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 11:10 AM Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> > I _think_ someone may be advocating that map() could return an
> > iterable if it is passed a iterable,
>
> I believe you mean 'iterator' rather than 'iterable' here and below as a
> sequence is an iterable.
>

well, the iterator / iterable distinction is important in this thread in
many places, so I should have been more careful about that -- but not for
this reason. Yes, a a sequence is an iterable, but what I meant was an
"iterable-that-is-not-a-sequence".

-CHB

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