docs on for-loop with no __iter__?
Steven Bethard
steven.bethard at gmail.com
Sat Sep 4 14:18:05 EDT 2004
Can someone point me to the documentation on what's supposed to happen
when you use the "for x in X:" syntax when X does not have an __iter__
method? I know that the code:
>>> class S:
... def __len__(self): return 42
... def __getitem__(self, i): return i
...
>>> for x in S():
... print x
tries to print all the non-negative integers, starting with 0. (Note
that the __len__ method doesn't stop it at 42.) Obviously, the right
way to do this is with __iter__, but presumably this behavior is
documented somewhere...
Steve
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