clarify discussion of iteration in the section on the "for" statement

freddrake · freddrake · commit 7fabaf8375b0 · 2004-11-02T19:18:20.000Z
(SF bug #829073)
diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref7.tex b/Doc/ref/ref7.tex
@@ -134,8 +134,10 @@ \section{The \keyword{for} statement\label{for}}
   \productioncont{["else" ":" \token{suite}]}
 \end{productionlist}
 
-The expression list is evaluated once; it should yield a sequence.  The
-suite is then executed once for each item in the sequence, in the
+The expression list is evaluated once; it should yield an iterable
+object.  An iterator is created for the result of the
+{}\code{expression_list}.  The suite is then executed once for each
+item provided by the iterator, in the
 order of ascending indices.  Each item in turn is assigned to the
 target list using the standard rules for assignments, and then the
 suite is executed.  When the items are exhausted (which is immediately
