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Python's "next" function (www.pythonmorsels.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I guess I knew the whole "you can't use next on iterables" in the sense that I've never tried it.

I TIL'd about the default value for next.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

All ‘next’ does is call ‘next’, which is part of the spec for ‘iterator’s.

Iterables return iterators when ‘iter’ is called on them. So they don’t need to support ‘next’ natively, their corresponding iterator does that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Exactly what I wanted to say. I understand teaching by example, but this is more like teaching by trial and error...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea, it is losing the forest for the trees. Next should be taught as part of iterators and for loops. It makes sense there. It doesn’t really stand on its own much.

To be honest, I’m not sure why it is a built in function… I feel like saying that python calls the ‘next’ function of your class when iterating is enough. But maybe I’m missing something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The default handling is pretty important.

What I find more interesting are 1. the two-argument form of iter, and 2. the __getitem__ auto-implementation that causes there to be two incompatible definitions of Iterable.

(btw your comments are using accidental formatting; use backticks: __next__)