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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:30:27 -0800
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Skip Montanaro wrote:
> What method(s) does a class have to support to properly emulate a container
> which supports turning it into a list?  For example:
> 
>   class Foo:
>     pass
> 
>   f = Foo()
>   print list(f)
> 
> Is it just __iter__() and next()?  (I'm still using 2.4 and 2.7.)


You can either use __iter__ and next to conform to the iterator
protocol, or you can define __getitem__.

If using __getitem__ it needs to work with integers from 0 to len(f)-1,
and raise IndexError for len(f), len(f+1), etc.

~Ethan~