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Author benjamin.peterson
Recipients benjamin.peterson, georg.brandl, pitrou, rhettinger, tim.peters
Date 2009-02-17.20:13:27
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment:
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> If iterators don't want their boolean value to be messed up, couldn't
> they simply use __bool__ for that?

Since there is no base iterator class, that would complicate the API
and lead to subtle bugs. Personally, I don't think any iterators
should supported len() at all.
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