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[Python-Dev] Python3: speed efficiency vs user friendliness (my first experience)

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Wed Mar 23 10:47:33 CET 2011 
Steven D'Aprano, 22.03.2011 22:12:
> anatoly techtonik wrote:
>> I didn't touch Python3 until PyCon, and my first user experience is
>> not really good. I've got a feeling that Python3 became more ugly,
>> because it doesn't allow me to think about the logic anymore, and
>> requires more low-level workarounds even for basic user input/output.
>
> Do you have any examples other than print?
>
> 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.
> Fortunately looping is about 90% of my use-cases for the dict methods, but
> the other 10% nearly always requires a list().

Sounds like Python 3 has the perfect default behaviour then.

Stefan
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