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

[Gonçalo Rodrigues]

On Sat, 02 Mar 2002 17:47:00 -0800, David Eppstein
<eppstein at ics.uci.edu> wrote:

>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!

As far as i understand 3.next() should give an error. 3 is iterable,
that is, it delivers an iterator in the appropriate context, it is NOT
the iterator itself. To get 0 you would have to do iter(3).next()

P.S: I am a newbie. I like this PEP proposal.