[Python-3000] PEP: rename it.next() to it.__next__(), add a next() built-in

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Greg Falcon wrote:
> I agree that file.read() is a different beast than iter.next().
> However, file.write() is a counterexample to your argument here.  It
> gets called by Python syntax, and yet doesn't (and shouldn't) have
> double underscores.
>
> >>> print >> object(), "foo"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   ...
> AttributeError: 'object' object has no attribute 'write'

True... and this is going away in Python 3.0.


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