iterators and views of lists

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:07:59 -0800, Brendan Miller wrote:

> I was thinking it would be cool to make python more usable in
> programming competitions by giving it its own port of the STL's
> algorithm library, which needs something along the lines of C++'s more
> powerful iterators.

For the benefit of those of us who aren't C++ programmers, what do its 
iterators do that Python's don't?


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Steven