Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ?

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Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:

> Terry Reedy wrote:
>
> > […] virtual collections can be infinite.
>
> Hmmm. I'm not sure I believe that. Can you enumerate all of the items
> and see if there actually is an infinite number of them? I'll wait...

A mathematician should know better: you don't need to enumerate to
demonstrate a collection is infinite.

Provided, of course, that the collection is *virtual* — so virtual that
it's not actually implemented on hardware :-)

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          Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-02-18 15:04 -0500
            Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-19 10:03 +1100
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              Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-19 11:33 +1100
  Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-02-17 19:54 -0500
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