1. well, I'd attribute that to ruby wich had
   for i in Enumerable #file, socket, dir,collections..
   ...
   end
   
   since the beginning :)
   
   (even though I strongly prefer python's coroutinish iterators to ruby's internal ones)
     posted by verbat at 12:05:04 PM on November 10, 2004  
2. Python had it since the beginning too... __iter__ is fairly new, but there were other ways to do the same thing (__getitem__, for example).
     posted by Hans Nowak at 12:46:20 PM on November 10, 2004