Leif K-Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a word for an iterable object which isn't also an iterator, and > therefor can be iterated over multiple times without being exhausted? > "Sequence" is close, but a non-iterator iterable could technically > provide an __iter__ method without implementing the sequence protocol, > so it's not quite right.
Not just ``technically'' -- a dict is a good and very common example of just such a "non-iterator, non-sequence iterable". As you're focusing on "can be iterated over multiple-times", I like "re-iterable"; it centers on what you can DO with the object, rather than quibbling what it ISN'T;-) Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
