PEP 323: Copyable Iterators

[John Roth]

"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message
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> Interested parties (essentially, people who write user-coded iterator, or
> are intense users of iterators as "stream of data", of standard library
> module itertools, etc) are welcome to read, and possibly comment on, a new
> PEP on copyable iterators, see:
>
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0323.html
>
> The PEP is currently at revision 1.2, having already been amended and
vastly
> extended as a consequence of discussions on these issues on python-dev.

I don't see where I'd use it, but on the other hand it doesn't seem like it
would increase the complexity of Python much (if at all) and it does seem
like a rather obvious feature to have.

+1

John Roth