Iterators (was: Re: [Tutor] text module)

[Erik Price]

On Saturday, August 31, 2002, at 08:56  PM, Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed  
wrote:

> A good article on iterators and generators is:
>
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> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l- 
> pycon.html?t=gr,lnxw10=PyIntro
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Thanks Ibz, I will read that article.

> I haven't played much with iterators myself, nor simple generators,  
> but the code
> below might help, as it is an example that uses both the __iter__()  
> and next() methods
> required of user-defined classes that adhere to the iterator protocol.

"iterator protocol" makes me wonder if iterators are found in other  
programming languages other than Python.  Obviously it wouldn't use the  
double-underscore convention for the method to be subclassed, but is  
this something that's found in C++, Java, or Obj-C (etc)?


Thank you,


Erik




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