[Python-3000] Fwd: Re: rename it.next() to it.__next__(), add a next() built-in

[Greg Ewing]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> Do you expect that next(someiterator) will be just
> as fast and calling a boundmethod (such as:
> counter=itertools.counter(1); counter())?

If you snarf a local reference to the next()
function, I expect it will be comparable in the
case where the iterator is implemented in C,
and probably also when it's implemented by a
Python generator.

--
Greg