Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Its maps have methods to
> return keys, values and items, but these return neither new lists nor
> iterators; they return "views" which obey set (or multiset, in the
> case of items) semantics.

> I'd like to explore this as an alternative to making keys() etc.
> return iterators.

This sounds like a really really good idea!

It would solve Jim's problem, because the result of
d.keys() would print out just like a real list, and
then he could backspace over the .keys() and do
something else.

Greg
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