Peter Schneider-Kamp petersc at stud.ntnu.no
Fri Jun 2 15:20:44 EDT 2000

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mlauer at trollinger-fe.rz.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
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> But why ? How does the for loop knows
> how much elements the sequence contains ?
> I did not program the __len__ function,
> so... how ?

As far as I understand the for loop goes on until an
IndexError is raised. Then the error is cleared and
the for loop ends.

Nice feature, if you ask me.

makes-extending-error-messages-more-complicated-though-ly y'rs
Peter
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