Hrvoje Niksic <hnik...@xemacs.org> writes: > Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > > > Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> writes: > >> Does this "never trust it" hold even for two consecutive iterations > >> over an unchanged dict? I didn't see anything in the docs[1] to make > >> such a claim, > > > > Exactly. > > This is false. The docs say: > > If items(), keys(), values(), iteritems(), iterkeys(), and > itervalues() are called with no intervening modifications to the > dictionary, the lists will directly correspond. This allows the > creation of (value, key) pairs using zip(): pairs = zip(d.values(), > d.keys()). > > (http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#mapping-types-dict)
Thank you for this correction. -- \ “Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It | `\ indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.” | _o__) —Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
