From 7fabaf8375b01b2e4fd514fa0549798b7070b027 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 19:18:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] clarify discussion of iteration in the section on the "for" statement (SF bug #829073) --- Doc/ref/ref7.tex | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref7.tex b/Doc/ref/ref7.tex index 92ee6552b1..5e50a74e2a 100644 --- a/Doc/ref/ref7.tex +++ b/Doc/ref/ref7.tex @@ -134,8 +134,10 @@ sequence (such as a string, tuple or list) or other iterable object: \productioncont{["else" ":" \token{suite}]} \end{productionlist} -The expression list is evaluated once; it should yield a sequence. The -suite is then executed once for each item in the sequence, in the +The expression list is evaluated once; it should yield an iterable +object. An iterator is created for the result of the +{}\code{expression_list}. The suite is then executed once for each +item provided by the iterator, in the order of ascending indices. Each item in turn is assigned to the target list using the standard rules for assignments, and then the suite is executed. When the items are exhausted (which is immediately -- 2.40.0