On 2/20/07, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * ISTM that views offer three benefits: re-iterability, set behavior, and
> self-updates. IMO, the first is not commonly needed and is trivially served
> by
> writing list(mydict.items()) or somesuch. The second is best served by an
> explicit conversion to a set or frozenset type
[snip]
> My recommendation is to take a more conservative route. Let's make dicts as
> simple as possible and then introduce a new collections module entry with the
> views bells and whistles.
Just to clarfiy, you're suggesting that we still change .keys()
.values() and .items() to iterators, right?
If so, +1. I was also starting to get a bit nervous about the new
complexity of dict(). Putting the view-like behavior into the
collections module makes good sense.
STeVe
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