collections use __next__() in python 2.6?

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Feb 26, 10:08 am, Gary Robinson <gary... at me.com> wrote:
> The Python 2.6.4 docs for collections athttp://docs.python.org/library/collections.htmlsay that __next__() is an abstract method for the Iterable ABC. But my understanding is that __next__() isn't supposed to be used until Python 3. Also, I'm using the Mapping ABC, which inherits from Iterable, and it doesn't seem to work if I define __next__(); I am not seeing problems if I define next() instead.
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> What am I missing?

It's a typo.
The abstract method is next().


Raymond