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55<H1><A NAME="SECTION008500000000000000000"></A><A NAME="iterator"></A>
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576.5 Iterator Protocol
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62<span class="versionnote">New in version 2.2.</span>
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64<P>
65There are only a couple of functions specifically for working with
66iterators.
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69<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"><td><nobr>int&nbsp;<b><tt id='l2h-346' xml:id='l2h-346' class="cfunction">PyIter_Check</tt></b>(</nobr></td><td>PyObject *<var>o</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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71 Return true if the object <var>o</var> supports the iterator protocol.
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75<dl><dt><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr valign="baseline"><td><nobr>PyObject*&nbsp;<b><tt id='l2h-347' xml:id='l2h-347' class="cfunction">PyIter_Next</tt></b>(</nobr></td><td>PyObject *<var>o</var>)</td></tr></table></dt>
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78 <span class="label">Return value:</span>
79 <span class="value">New reference.</span>
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81 Return the next value from the iteration <var>o</var>. If the object is
82 an iterator, this retrieves the next value from the iteration, and
83 returns <tt class="constant">NULL</tt> with no exception set if there are no remaining
84 items. If the object is not an iterator, <tt class="exception">TypeError</tt> is
85 raised, or if there is an error in retrieving the item, returns
86 <tt class="constant">NULL</tt> and passes along the exception.
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90To write a loop which iterates over an iterator, the C code should
91look something like this:
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95PyObject *iterator = PyObject_GetIter(obj);
96PyObject *item;
97
98if (iterator == NULL) {
99 /* propagate error */
100}
101
102while (item = PyIter_Next(iterator)) {
103 /* do something with item */
104 ...
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106 Py_DECREF(item);
107}
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109Py_DECREF(iterator);
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