What are the typical use cases of an iterator_trait

Pointers into an array can be used as random access iterators. There needs to be some consistent way to get these types both for pointers (which obviously can’t have the types declared as nested types, since only classes can have nested types) and for class-type iterators. The traits class template provides this consistent way. The … Read more

In Rust, is a vector an Iterator?

No, a vector is not an iterator. But it implements the trait IntoIterator, which the for loop uses to convert the vector into the required iterator. In the documentation for Vec you can see that IntoIterator is implemented in three ways: for Vec<T>, which is moved and the iterator returns items of type T, for … Read more

How to resolve “iterator should return strings, not bytes”

request.FILES gives you binary files, but the csv module wants to have text-mode files instead. You need to wrap the file in a io.TextIOWrapper() instance, and you need to figure out the encoding: from io import TextIOWrapper f = TextIOWrapper(request.FILES[‘filename’].file, encoding=request.encoding) It’d probably be better if you took the charset parameter from the Content-Type header … Read more

How do I avoid unwrap when converting a vector of Options or Results to only the successful values?

I want to ignore all Err values Since Result implements IntoIterator, you can convert your Vec into an iterator (which will be an iterator of iterators) and then flatten it: Iterator::flatten: vec.into_iter().flatten().collect() Iterator::flat_map: vec.into_iter().flat_map(|e| e).collect() These methods also work for Option, which also implements IntoIterator. You could also convert the Result into an Option and … Read more

Why doesn’t std::bitset come with iterators?

I don’t think there was ever an actual decision to exclude iterators from bitset. Rather, bitset is one of the classes that predates the proposal to add the original Standard Template Library to the C++ standard. When it was designed, essentially none of the standard library included iterators. Then, Stepanov’s library was proposed for addition, … Read more

Iterating over non-incremental Enum

With C++, the only way to iterate through enums is store them in an array and iterate through the same. The main challenge is how to track the same order in the enum declaration and the array declaration? You can automate the way you order them in the enum as well as array. I feel … Read more