On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 4:30 PM Brendan Barnwell <[email protected]> wrote:
>         That said. . . I'm starting to wonder why not just create a new dunder
> called __items__ and have dict alias that to .items().  Then the
> **-unpacking protocol could use that and everything would be fine, right?
>

+0.95.

If we could borrow the time machine and create this protocol way back
in Python's past, I think it'd be the best. The semantics of
maintaining backward compatibility MAY complicate things... but then
again, iterator protocol is a bit complicated too, and everyone's fine
with just defining __iter__.

ChrisA
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