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  Re: isiter builtin Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-11-16 04:40 -0500

#80870 — Re: isiter builtin

On 11/16/2014 2:57 AM, Garrett Berg wrote:
> (how often have you iterated over a string?)

Often enough, but perhaps more often have written functions for which a 
string is as valid an input as many other iterables.

def cross(iterable, reiterable):
     for a in iterable:
         for b in reiterable:
             yield a, b

print(list(cross('ab', 'cde')))
# [('a', 'c'), ('a', 'd'), ('a', 'e'), ('b', 'c'), ('b', 'd'), ('b', 'e')]

For me, there is no point in excluding such input and output.

(And yes, the code above could be enhanced by at least checking that 
reiterable is *not* an iterator, or by replacing the second arg, renamed 
iterable2, with list(iterable2), but this is besides the point.)

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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