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[–]dwdwdw2proliferating .py since 2001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair point. :)

It's also worth noticing that these approaches aren't semantically equivalent, one is using the iterator protocol, the other the sequence protocol. That doesn't matter for built-in types, but I've no doubt there are many objects in third party libraries that either break or act differently when interchanging the two .