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Author abarnert
Recipients abarnert, martin.panter, ncoghlan, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2016-01-01.21:25:14
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> I don’t think you need to define __len__() to get an iterable, only __getitem__().

The "old-style sequence protocol" means having a __getitem__ that works for values from 0 to __len__() and raises IndexError at __len__(). You don't need to be a complete old-style sequence to be iterable; just having __getitem__ makes you iterable (without being a collections.abc.Iterable or a typing.Iterable), and having __getitem__ and __len__ makes you reversible (without being a typing.Reversible). At any rate, this bug isn't about avoiding false negatives for the implicit ABCs, but false positives: defining __iter__ = None blocks the old-style sequence protocol, but makes isinstance(Iterable) true.
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