Is there a good reason why when you try to take an element from an already exausted iterator, it throws StopIteration instead of some other exception ? I've lost quite some times already because I was using a lot of iterators and I forgot that that specific function parameter was one.
Exemple : >>> def f(i): ... print list(i) ... print list(i) ... >>> f(iter(range(2))) [0, 1] [] >>> This is using Python 2.4.2 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
