PEP 276 -- What else could iter(5) mean?

[David Eppstein]

Here's another way of looking at the same question.
An iterable object has a next() function, that's what it means to be 
iterable.  If numbers are iterable, we can call number.next(), right?
So what should 5.next() be?  Surely anyone familiar with the Peano axioms 
would say 6, not 0!
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/