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

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Sun Apr 20 01:14:42 CEST 2014 
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2014, at 02:12 PM, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
>
>>I don't see this as a key porting hassle *at all* and I don't understand
>>why they think this would significantly help their porting (it wouldn't).
>>The only real barrier is the str/bytes conversion, really, and this is even
>>more true for projects massively centered around IO, such as Twisted and,
>>I'm sure, the main (only?) reason why Twisted hasn't been ported yet.
>
> I agree.  I've been trying to get rid of iter*() when porting because most of
> the time, there is no significant memory savings to be achieved anyway.

+1

-eric
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