On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016, at 09:24, Chris Angelico wrote: >> It is an iterable. It is not a factory, as that implies that you call >> it. > > I do have an objection to this statement. It's perfectly reasonable to > describe the factory pattern as applying to objects on which you call a > method to return the new object you are interested in. In this sense, > all collections are iterator factories.
Hmm. I suppose that would be reasonable, if you expect to call range_object.__iter__() - but you shouldn't. You should call iter(range_object), which, to my mind, means that *iter* is an iterator factory. Anyway, the word "iterable" accurately sums up the state: it's a thing you can iterate over. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
