list() coercion

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Ian Bicking wrote:
> I'm not clear on how that will help...?  
> 
> It already does have an __iter__ method, but it returns a separate
> iterator.

It turns out that it won't help. I had thought that
calling __len__ would only happen if there were no
__iter__ method, but that seems not to be the case.

The only thing I can think of at the moment is not
to do list(x) at all, but list(iter(x)) instead.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
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