On 2/20/07, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * A dict is also one of Python's most basic APIs (along with lists). Ideally, > we should keep those two APIs as simple as possible (getting rid of > setdefault() > and unneeded methods is a step in the right direction). IMO, the views will > be > the hardest part of the API to explain and interact with when learning the > language [...]
I agree. Views will make dicts harder to learn for newcomers and trickier to use even for experts. The current non-aliasing behavior is a feature. Seen that way, the switch to views seems like a broken optimization. > * ISTM that views offer three benefits: re-iterability, set behavior, and > self-updates. [...] I think the benefit the team really liked was #4, "delete iterkeys(), itervalues(), and iteritems() from the mapping API". But this now seems like false economy to me. -j _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
