On Monday 15 July 2002 05:15 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I'm still only considering two options: > > (a) leave the status quo, or > (b) implement (and document!) the "sink-state" rule from the PEP. For what it's worth, I strongly prefer (b). > If we end up adopting (b), what can we do to Python 2.2 that doesn't > break the "bug-fixes-only" promise of that branch? > > If there's code that depends on the extendibility of list iterators, > are we breaking our promise by breaking that code? I have no opinion on this specific issue. Every other iterator could surely be made to implement the sink behavior, but I do not know if the empirically observed behavior of iterators on list could be classified as a bug (I sure wish it could). Alex
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