string: __iter__()?

[Peter Otten]

mrquantum wrote:

> Am Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:03:41 +0200 schrieb Fredrik Lundh:

>> really?  iter("SomeString") works just fine for me.

> But then why doesn't dir('SomeString') show an __iter__ method? Seems to
> be implmented differently than with e.g. lists? 

The older pre-__iter__() iteration style relying on __getitem__() still
works:

>>> class A:
...     def __getitem__(self, index):
...             return [3,2,1][index]
...
>>> for item in A():
...     print item
...
3
2
1

> Know why?

No idea. Perhaps nobody cared?

Peter