file iterator "deemed broken"; can resume after StopIteration

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reading the linked BPO issue 23455 and the existing Python documentation for file iterators and StopIteration. No source file or test is named in this issue; done would mean documenting whether iteration can resume after StopIteration and addressing the reported behavior clearly.

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Description

docs type-bug
BPO 23455
Nosy @pitrou

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assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2015-02-12.18:48:54.422>
labels = ['type-bug', 'docs']
title = 'file iterator "deemed broken"; can resume after StopIteration'
updated_at = <Date 2015-07-21.07:29:07.686>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/dalke'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2015-07-21.07:29:07.686>
actor = 'ethan.furman'
assignee = 'docs@python'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Documentation']
creation = <Date 2015-02-12.18:48:54.422>
creator = 'dalke'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 23455
keywords = []
message_count = 1.0
messages = ['235850']
nosy_count = 3.0
nosy_names = ['dalke', 'pitrou', 'docs@python']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = None
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue23455'
versions = ['Python 3.5']

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