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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2003-06-25 19:03:22 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2003-06-25 19:03:22 (GMT) |
| commit | 2dd8c426382d620cb5aa20cf75584a174a9aacb8 (patch) | |
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SF bug #696777: How to make a class iterable using a member generator.
* Added a note that a container class can implement the iterator protocol
by defining its __iter__() method as a generator.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex index 4c1dcbd..2b64d89 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex @@ -395,6 +395,12 @@ do not obey this property are deemed broken. (This constraint was added in Python 2.3; in Python 2.2, various iterators are broken according to this rule.) +Python's generators provide a convenient way to implement the +iterator protocol. If a container object's \method{__iter__()} +method is implemented as a generator, it will automatically +return an iterator object (technically, a generator object) +supplying the \method{__iter__()} and \method{next()} methods. + \subsection{Sequence Types \label{typesseq}} |