General question about Python design goals

[Aahz]

In article <861x0vouap.fsf at bhuda.mired.org>, Mike Meyer  <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
>Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> writes:
>> 
>> For me, conceptually, if an object can't be accessed
>> sequentially, then it can't be mapped to a sequence.
>
>So you're saying that for should implicitly invoke list (or maybe
>iter) on any object that it's passed that's not a list or iterator?

for does in fact implicitly invoke iter() on its loop expression.
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