[R. Hettinger] > > You're best bet is to quote the tutorial's glossary, > > http://docs.python.org/tut/node18.html :
[Michele Simionato] > Aha! That glossary looks like a nice new addition to the tutorial. > Maybe the standard library and the language > reference should link to it somewhere? (maybe > there already such links but I missed them). You know where to submit a patch ;-) > Would you agree with Leif's definition that iterable is > any x such that iter(x) does not raise an error? Sure, that is an accurate but not especially informative tautology. A person can memorize that definition and still know nothing useful like what they do (return their elements one at a time), what they look like (__iter__ or __getitem__ methods), or how they work. You might also mention that monglable is defined as any x such that mongle(x) does not fail. Knowing that fact is the key to a complete and deep understanding of monglation ;-) Raymond Hettinger -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
