Proposed new syntax

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> writes:
>>     generate_id = functools.partial(next, itertools.count())
>
> Is something wrong with:
>
>     >>> g = itertools.count().next
>     >>> g()
>     0
>     >>> g()
>     1
>     >>> g()
>     2
>     >>> ...

That's the Python 2 version of the same thing. The next method was
renamed to __next__ to synchronize it with other, similar methods.

ChrisA