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[Python-Dev] PEP 469: Restoring the iterkeys/values/items() methods

Kristján Valur Jónsson kristjan at ccpgames.com
Sat Apr 19 13:41:35 CEST 2014 
Wouldn't "iterkeys" simply be an alias for "keys" and so on?
I'm +1 on that.
It is a signigificant portion of the incompatibility, and seems like such a minor concession to compatibility to make.
K

-----Original Message-----
From: Python-Dev [mailto:python-dev-bounces+kristjan=ccpgames.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Antoine Pitrou
Sent: 19. apríl 2014 09:36
To: python-dev at python.org
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 469: Restoring the iterkeys/values/items() methods

On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 22:31:29 -0400
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> After spending some time talking to the folks at the PyCon Twisted 
> sprints, they persuaded me that adding back the iterkeys/values/items 
> methods for mapping objects would be a nice way to eliminate a key 
> porting hassle for them (and likely others), without significantly 
> increasing the complexity of Python 3.

I'm -1 on this. This is destroying the simplification effort of the dict API in Python 3.

Regards

Antoine.


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