[Python-3000] Making strings non-iterable

Thu Apr 13 20:57:02 CEST 2006

Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> I propose that strings (unicode/text) shouldn't be iterable. Seeing this:
>> <ul>
> <li> i
> <li> t
> <li> e
> <li> m
> <li>
> <li> 1
> </ul>
>> a few too many times... it's annoying. Instead, I propose that strings
> get a list-like view on their characters. Oh synergy!
>> Thus you would do:
>> for c in a_string.chars():
> print c

Would this remove __getitem__? I believe I wouldn't want to give up s[0] as
"the first character in s". That would make a string a thing where you can
use [3] to access the third character, but still not iterable.
-- 
Giovanni Bajo