[Python-3000] Default dict iterator should have been iteritems() (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 4 17:09:12 CEST 2007
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Guido van Rossum wrote:
On 9/4/07, Noam Raphael <noamraph at gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/4/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
Noam Raphael wrote:
The default dict iterator should in principle be iteritems(), and not iterkeys(). This was discussed at length back when "in" support was added to dicts. There were reasons for choosing to do it the way it's done, and I don't think it's likely to be changed.
Just out of curiousity - do you remember these reasons? Consistency with "k in d", where you'll agree with me that the only useful interpretation is checking for a key. It would be annoying if "for x in obj:" no longer rhymed with "if x in obj:".
I would certainly be rather annoyed if the following code could blow up with an assertion error in the absence of any threading foolishness:
for k in d: assert k in d
Containment and iteration really do need to be kept consistent and having the value matter when checking for dictionary containment would be outright bizarre. Put the two together and it makes sense for dictionary iteration and containment tests to both be based on keys.
Note that the other basic container types in the standard library (lists, tuples, sets, strings, xrange) also obey the iteration<->containment invariant above.
Cheers, Nick.
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