[Python-Dev] Termination of two-arg iter()

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:40:41 +1200 (NZST)


Oren Tirosh <oren-py-d@hishome.net>:

> The hypothetical IteratorExhausted is an error.

Calling it IteratorExhaustedError would make this clearer.

But I'm not sure it would be a good idea to complexify
the iterator protocol any more than absolutely necessary,
and thus place an extra burden on all iterator implementors.

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