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From: Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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Subject: Re: Strange range
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 23:44:57 +0300
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Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid>:

> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> There's a bit of a cognitive dissonance between iterables and iterators.
>> On the one hand, they behave identically in many contexts. On the other
>> hand, the distinction is crucial in some special cases.
>
> You're missing a key point.  All (well-behaved) iterators are iterables,
> with their __iter__ method returning themselves.

I don't know what I'm missing.


Marko