[Python-3000] PEP 3106: Revamping dict.keys(), .values() and .items() (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Dec 20 12:43:53 CET 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

I've written a quick version of PEP 3106, which expresses my ideas about how the dict methods to access keys, values and items should be redone.

The text is in svn: http://svn.python.org/view/peps/trunk/pep-3106.txt?rev=53096&view=markup At some point it will appear on python.org: http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-3106/ Comments please? (Or we can skip the comments and go straight to the implementation stage. Patch anyone?) And one thing I left out of my other reply:

The UserDict and UserList modules are going to need to be renamed in order to provide PEP compliant homes for ListMixin and DictMixin (as per PEP 3100, the other classes in those modules go away completely).

Wherever DictMixin ends up, it is going to need classes defined that it can return from keys(), items() and values(). These may either be alternate implementations written in Python, or else the actual C versions used by the builtin dict type. For names, something simple like DictKeysView, DictItemsView and DictValuesView should be fine.

Cheers, Nick.

[1] 'containertools'?, 'collectiontools'?, 'collections.utils'? I suspect a BDFL name pronouncement will be needed if we pursue this idea :)

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