Mel wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> I *guess* that what you mean by "writable iterators" is that rebinding e >> should change seq in place, i.e. you would expect that seq should now >> equal [42, 42]. Is that what you mean? It's not clear. >> >> Fortunately, that's not how it works, and far from being a "limitation", >> it would be *disastrous* if iterables worked that way. I can't imagine >> how many bugs would occur from people reassigning to the loop variable, >> forgetting that it had a side-effect of also reassigning to the iterable. >> Fortunately, Python is not that badly designed. > > And for an iterator like > > def things(): > yield 1 > yield 11 > yield 4 > yield 9 > > I don't know what it could even mean.
<http://docs.python.org/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-yield-statement> You could have tried to debug. Please trim your quotes to the relevant minimum. -- PointedEars Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. / Please do not Cc: me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
