[Dev] Proposing the removal of Item.__iter__( )

Ted Leung twl at osafoundation.org
Mon Oct 25 22:45:05 PDT 2004


+1
On Oct 25, 2004, at 1:27 PM, Andi Vajda wrote:

>
> Yes, I agree, this would resolve the confusion. We're not emphasizing 
> the use of parent/children containers anyway.
>
>  +1
>
> Andi..
>
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Morgen Sagen wrote:
>
>> This is an old outstanding issue I would like to resolve:
>>
>> One way to get an item's children was to iterate on the item ("for 
>> child in item:"), but now that ItemCollection overrides __iter__( ), 
>> that changes the behavior.  Iterating on an ItemCollection returns 
>> results rather than children.
>>
>> Unless there are any objections, I would like to have Andi remove 
>> Item's __iter__( ) method and just have people use iterChildren( ) 
>> instead.
>>
>> ~morgen
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