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author | Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi@gmail.com> | 2012-08-15 19:37:19 (GMT) |
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committer | Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi@gmail.com> | 2012-08-15 19:37:19 (GMT) |
commit | 4ffe9a064022b973ab152d108b13c470af486a74 (patch) | |
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clarify in/not in in case of infinite iterators; thanks to Sergey Skovorodkin from docs@
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/functional.rst b/Doc/howto/functional.rst index 9636c6c..836ec6d 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/functional.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/functional.rst @@ -244,9 +244,9 @@ Built-in functions such as :func:`max` and :func:`min` can take a single iterator argument and will return the largest or smallest element. The ``"in"`` and ``"not in"`` operators also support iterators: ``X in iterator`` is true if X is found in the stream returned by the iterator. You'll run into obvious -problems if the iterator is infinite; ``max()``, ``min()``, and ``"not in"`` +problems if the iterator is infinite; ``max()``, ``min()`` will never return, and if the element X never appears in the stream, the -``"in"`` operator won't return either. +``"in"`` and ``"not in"`` operators won't return either. Note that you can only go forward in an iterator; there's no way to get the previous element, reset the iterator, or make a copy of it. Iterator objects |