Status of PEP's?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3C844811.AEC974E3 at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>,
Greg Ewing  <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>To me, the __iter__ protocol is intended to be used when an object can
>reasonably be thought of as a sequence.  That's actually *being* a
>sequence, not just "associated" with a sequence in some way.
>
>Using the __iter__ protocol in the way suggested by this PEP is abusing
>it, in my opinion.

Yes, particularly when I repeat myself and use this example:

    if i in 5:

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