[Python-Dev] Toowtdi: Datatype conversions

Mon Jan 5 07:56:28 EST 2004

"Robert Brewer" <fumanchu at amor.org> writes:
> Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>> Choosing between:
>>>> list(d) or d.keys()
>>>> Which is the one obvious way of turning a dictionary into a list? 
>> IMO, list(d) is it.
>> Except that, "turning a dictionary into a list" as an English phrase is
> indeterminate--do you want the keys or the values or both?

Indeed. In particular, I often write
for k in d:
 ...
and 
for k,v in d:
 ...
and seem to subconsciously expect Python to work out the rest :-)
(this is not a feature request...)
Cheers,
mwh
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