On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes: > >> Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: >> > generate_id = functools.partial(next, itertools.count()) >> >> Is something wrong with: >> >> >>> g = itertools.count().next > > I wasn't looking for a ‘next’ method on the iterator. Is that special to > the ‘itertools.count’ type? > > If so, I was attempting to give the more general solution to “how do I > get a function that will give me the next thing from this iterator”.
It's on all iterators; it's the Py2 equivalent for __next__. When you call next(x), Py2 calls x.next(), which - being an inconsistent name - got renamed to the more appropriate __next__() in Py3. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
