[Python-3000] Making strings non-iterable

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Apr 16 07:20:04 CEST 2006

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Jim Jewett wrote:
> (I wouldn't want to give up slicing, though, which might make the
> no-iteration trickier.)

You'd want to allow slicing but not indexing -- i.e.
s[i:j] is okay but not s[i].
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Greg

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