On 8/29/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > Having views in a library module alleviates many of my objections. > > While I still worry that it will be overused, deque doesn't seem to be > > overused, so perhaps I should relax. > > Another thought is that there will already be ways > in which Py3k views could lead to inefficiencies if > they're not used carefully. A keys() view of a dict, > for example, will keep the values of the dict alive > as well as the keys, unlike the existing keys() > method.
Right; but I don't expect that such a keys() view will typically have a lifetime longer than the dict. For substrings OTOH that's quite common (parsing etc.). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
