[Patches] [ python-Patches-1471291 ] Forbid iteration over strings

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Patches item #1471291, was opened at 2006-04-16 09:43
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Category: Core (C code)
Group: Python 3000
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 1
Submitted By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Assigned to: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Summary: Forbid iteration over strings

Initial Comment:
This was proposed on the list.  It turned out to be
easy to implement the basic feature (iter() only calls
__iter__ and doesn't fall back on __getitem__) but a
disaster to use -- even after extensive fixes to the
sre compiler and smaller fixes to half a dozen other
modules, 120 tests were failing.  I'm saving the diffs
here for posterity.

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