[Python-3000] Py3k release schedule worries (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Dec 19 10:07:50 CET 2006

Manuzhai wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

- make keys(), items(), values() return pseudo-sets/collections rather than lists Great to see you're back on the Py3k thing (but Mondrian looks really cool!). I got the impression before that keys(), items() and values() would become generators (or iterators) that don't return the whole thing at once. Is that still correct, or is there some other thing you mean by pseudo-sets/collections? Sorry if I am the only one confused here.

A (long) while back we considered the implications of making them return pure iterators and didn't like the answer we got (a lot of broken and hard-to-fix code).

The answer we came up with was to return a set-style view of the original collection rather than an actual iterator.

Cheers, Nick.

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