string: __iter__()?

[mrquantum]

Am Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:59:07 +0200 schrieb mrquantum:

> Hello!
> 
> Just for curiosity i'd like to know why strings don't support the
> iteration protocoll!? Is there some deeper reason for this?
> 

Sorry, was to hasty by saying "... don't support the iteration
protocol'! Sure they do, as the iter('SomeString') function or the
construction for c in 'SomeString' show.

It's just not implemented by a __iter__ method of the string in question!