Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > Or at least, if we cannot do that because of backward > compatibility:-(, to explicitly document that Iterable ABC > _does not_ fully encompass what we mean by "being iterable".
That would be a reasonable amendment to collections.abc.Iterable docs. I don't think it is either desirable or possible for collections.abc.Iterable to recognize iterables with __getitem__. We cannot know it advance whether __getitem__ is a mapping or a sequence. IIRC, that particular problem was the motivation for creating the ABCs. Without a user registering a class as Iterable or without inheriting from Iterable, there is really no way to know. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18558> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
