Strange range

[Mark Lawrence]

On 01/04/2016 21:44, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Rob Gaddi <rgaddi at highlandtechnology.invalid>:
>
>> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> There's a bit of a cognitive dissonance between iterables and iterators.
>>> On the one hand, they behave identically in many contexts. On the other
>>> hand, the distinction is crucial in some special cases.
>>
>> You're missing a key point.  All (well-behaved) iterators are iterables,
>> with their __iter__ method returning themselves.
>
> I don't know what I'm missing.
>
> Marko
>

Neither do we, which is why so many threads here belong, eventually, on 
comp.lang.theoretical.claptrap.

I remember when we used to have Bots here commenting on the Python 
language.  Obviously they've all given up as so much drivel is spouted, 
and/or they've gone to join the Norwegian Blue.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence