iter jitters

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Steven Brent wrote:

> Btw, I just realized that a custom __getitem__ method I defined earlier
> in the module(and unhelpfully didnt post), handles the iteration in 2
> lines!
> 
> def __getitem__(self, index):
>          return self.data[index]
> 
> This is the kind of thing I was after, because I didn't want any
> iteration going on in the __iter__ definition itself. Trying to reinvent
> the wheel for exercise.

Interesting. Just played around with my example and found that in case of
absence of an __iter__-method the for - in generates keys from 0 to - well,
I guess something like max_int, but I won't wait so long... - and then
tries __getitem__ with that key.



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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch