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[Python-Dev] iterator API in Py3.0

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sat Mar 4 21:45:03 CET 2006 
At 09:34 AM 3/4/2006 -0800, Anna Ravenscroft wrote:
>I think this is a really good point. next() is supposed to get used, by 
>coders, in regular code - so it shouldn't be __next__. I can understand 
>the desire for both forms, although that seems it would clutter things up 
>unnecessarily - particularly if the two do the same thing.

By this argument, we should be using ob.len() instead of len(ob), and 
ob.iter() instead of iter(ob).
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