[Python-ideas] Introduce collections.Reiterable

[Neil Girdhar]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Raymond Hettinger <
raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Sep 20, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>
> . The glossary might say that the older __getitem__ protocol is
> semi-deprecated (it is no longer used directly) but is adapted for back
> compatibility.
>
>
> It is NOT deprecated.   People use and rely on this behavior.  It is a
> guaranteed behavior.  Please don't use the glossary as a place to introduce
> changes to the language.
>

Just curious, but who uses __getitem__ to implement an iterable that's not
a sequence?

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> Raymond
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