Barry Warsaw <ba...@debian.org> writes: > Personally, I think the use of dict.iteritems is way overused.
It (as the trio of ‘dict.iterkeys’, ‘dict.itervalues’, ‘dict.iteritems’) was heavily recommended from the time when the standard recommendation was to use ‘2to3’. That tool could then tell whether the programmer actually wanted the list returned, or merely an iterator. These days, ‘dict.keys’, ‘dict.values’, ‘dict.items’ are re-implemented in Python 3 as views; the same names work just fine in both Python 2 and Python 3. Combine that with the fact that ‘2to3’ is no longer the officially recommended path to migrate (instead we should be aiming at the transitional stel of Python 2 and Python 3 supported in the same code base), and most of the advantage to the ‘dict.iter*’ recommendation is gone. So what we're left with is a lot of ‘dict.iter*’ added in good faith to help porting code to Python 3, but now mostly cruft that should be reverted to the non-‘iter*’ methods. -- \ “It's all in the mind, you know.” —The Goon Show | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/858udmo7sa.fsf...@benfinney.id.au
