Alex Martelli wrote: > (there is no common Python type on which you can both call > len(...) AND the .next() method, for example -- a combination > which really makes no sense).
>>> L = [1, 2, 3] >>> len(L) 3 >>> I = iter(L) >>> I <listiterator object at 0x0091ABD0> >>> len(I) 3 >>> I.next() 1 >>> len(I) 2 >>> I.next() 2 >>> len(I) 1 >>> I.next() 3 >>> len(I) 0 >>> I.next() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? StopIteration (it's probably not a good idea to rely on this behaviour...) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
