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Author terry.reedy
Recipients docs@python, ezio.melotti, stefanchrobot, terry.reedy
Date 2013-05-10.19:45:39
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Since range objects have a known length, that example is not enough to show 'any iterable'. However, generators do not even have a __length_hint__ and they work too.

a = [1,2,3]
a[0:1] = (i for i in range(4))
print(a)
>>> 
[0, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3]
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