[Python-checkins] r42718 - peps/trunk/pep-3000.txt

Wed Mar 1 06:50:28 CET 2006

> -* Return iterators instead of lists where appropriate for atomic type methods
> - (e.g. ``dict.keys()``, ``dict.values()``, ``dict.items()``, etc.)
> - (Do we keep iter*() methods or remove them? I vote remove. -- nn)

The last line doesn't make sense to me. I had thought the direction was to keep 
simple names like range(), dict.items(), dict.keys(), and dict.values() and have 
them return an iterator instead of a list. When that is done, then the current 
iterator versions will be redundant and we can kill-off the weird names like 
xrange(), dict.iter_items(), dict.iter_keys(), and dict.iter_values().
IOW, we still need some method to iterator over dictionary items and the name 
should be dict.items() rather than the long-winded, dict.iter_items()
Raymond