[Python-ideas] Consider making enumerate a sequence if its argument is a sequence

[Neil Girdhar]

I guess, I'm just asking for enumerate to go through the same change that
range went through.  Why wasn't it a problem for range?

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:18 PM Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah good point.  Well, in the case of a sequence argument, an enumerate
> object could be both a sequence and an iterator.
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:15 PM Alexander Belopolsky <
> alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> A Sequence is an Iterator.
>>
>>
>> No, a Sequence is an Iterable, not an Iterator:
>>
>> >>> issubclass(collections.Sequence, collections.Iterator)
>> False
>> >>> issubclass(collections.Sequence, collections.Iterable)
>> True
>>
>
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