On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > Because an iterator isn't a container. I don't know, maybe it does make > sense, but my first impression is that it sounds wrong. > > A basket of apples is a basket which contains apples, in the same way a > list contains foos. But an iterator doesn't contain anything. You > wouldn't say, "a spigot of water", because the spigot isn't a container > holding the water. It is simply a mechanism for delivering the water in > a controlled way.
But if you have a spigot of hot water and a spigot of cold water, those terms make perfect sense even though the spigots don't "contain" that water. I could be a fount of all (unreliable) knowledge by using Google, Wikipedia, and Blogger to answer questions, but I don't "contain" that knowledge. I'd use "iterable" in exactly the same grammatical way that I'd use "list". Write it with "list" and then s/list/iterable/ and it'll be grammatical. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
