Assigning generator expressions to ctype arrays

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/28/2011 3:21 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> If the slice has too few elements, you've just blown away the entire
> iterator for no good reason.

> If the slice is the right length, but the iterator doesn't next raise
> StopIteration, you've just thrown away one perfectly good value. Hope it
> wasn't something important.

You have also over-written values that should be set back to what they 
were, before the exception is raised, which is why I said the test needs 
to be done with a temporary array.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy