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Author rhettinger
Recipients ezio.melotti, fgracia, mrabarnett, rhettinger
Date 2012-05-27.16:52:34
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> All iterators are always true,

More generally, all objects are true by default.  The only false objects in Python are None; container-like objects with a __len__ that returns zero; and number-like objects with a __nonzero__ method that returns False.

Guido decided that iterators should not be treated like containers and should not have a __len__ method.
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