[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: > > Is there a good reason to not define iter1+iter2 to be the same as
> If you mean for *ALL* built-in types, such as generators, lists, files, > dicts, etc, etc -- I'm not so sure. Yes, that's what I mean. > Right now, if I mistakenly try to add a list to a dict, I get an > exception which immediately alerts me to my mistake. I definitely > wouldn't want to lose that... Hmm, there might also be __add__ operations on the objects, that would have to take precedence over iterator addition. Iterator addition itself would have to be a special kludge like figuring out "<" from __cmp__, etc. Yeah, I guess the idea doesn't work out that well. Oh well. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
