Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Mar 22 23:58:26 CET 2011

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Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> The main one that comes to my mind is that other than looping, any time 
> I want to process dict.items() etc I often need to call list() first.

I don't think that's such a bad thing. It makes it clear that
you're performing a more expensive operation than just looking
at the keys.

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Greg

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