How to stop iteration with __iter__() ?

[MRAB]

On Aug 20, 11:27 am, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
> On Aug 20, 7:56 pm, MRAB <goo... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
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> > On Aug 20, 12:11 am, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
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> > > or, perhaps, for completeness/paranoia/whatever:
>
> > > it = iter(iterable)
> > > try:
> > >    headings = it.next() # < 2.5
> > > except StopIteration:
> > >    # code to handle empty <iterable>
> > > for item etc etc
>
> > I think it needs to be:
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> > it = iter(iterable)
> > try:
> >     headings = it.next() # < 2.5
> > except StopIteration:
> >     # code to handle empty <iterable>
> > else:
> >     for item etc etc
>
> > because you don't want to iterate over the remainder if it has already
> > stopped yielding! :-)
>
> If it has stopped yielding, the remainder is nothing/null/empty, isn't
> it?
> In any case "code to handle empty <iterable>" is likely to end with a
> raise or return statement.
>
So it's defined behaviour that an exhausted iterable will always raise
StopIteration no matter how many times it's asked for the next value?