[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] dict.items as attributes [Was: The bytes type] (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Jan 16 23:47:18 CET 2007


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On Jan 16, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Jim Jewett wrote:

Other than dict.items (and .keys and .values) returning a non-list, are there any other cases where the Py3K idiom can't already be used in (or at least backported to) Py 2.x?

I know Guido is against attribute syntax for dict.items and friends,
and I agree with him for reasons I can't quite put my finger on.
But, would it be possible to support both the py3k way and the Python
2 way if you accepted attribute syntax for returning the view
thingie? Couldn't that view thingie have an call that returned
the backward compatible list object?

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