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[Python-porting] documentation bug

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 17:30:21 CET 2014 
Bugs for the future library should be reported here:

https://github.com/PythonCharmers/python-future/issues

I could do it, but it would look like I found the issue, it's better if you
do it directly.


On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Nick Jacobson <
nicksjacobson at yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote:

> At
> http://python-future.org/compatible_idioms.html#iterating-through-dict-keys-values-items
>
> It states:
>
> # Python 2 and 3: option 2from builtins import iteritems
>
>
> but should be:
>
> # Python 2 and 3: option 2from future.utils import iteritems
>
>
> ...and in fact, help(iteritems) returns:
>
> iteritems(obj, **kwargs)
>     Use this only if compatibility with Python versions before 2.7 is
>     required. Otherwise, prefer viewitems().
>
> So perhaps it should be:
>
> # Python 2.7+ and 3: option
>  2from future.utils import viewitems
>
>
> and the example updated to reflect this.
>
> The above applies to itervalues as well.
>
> Nick
>
>
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