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| author | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2021-11-20 00:40:34 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-11-20 00:40:34 (GMT) |
| commit | be36e0634060c7d5dee8e8876fb888bbb53d992a (patch) | |
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bpo-45250: fix docs regarding `__iter__` and iterators being inconsistently required by CPython (GH-29170)
It is now considered a historical accident that e.g. `for` loops and the `iter()` built-in function do not require the iterators they work with to define `__iter__`, only `__next__`.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-10-22-12-09-18.bpo-45250.Iit5-Y.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-10-22-12-09-18.bpo-45250.Iit5-Y.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0c2bf18b --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-10-22-12-09-18.bpo-45250.Iit5-Y.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Update the documentation to note that CPython does not consistently +require iterators to define ``__iter__``. |