2007/12/13, Noam Raphael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Was it considered to drop the parentheses after "dict.keys()", to make > it "dict.keys" (that is, to make it a property instead of a method > with no arguments)? If it was, please forgive me - a few minutes of > googling didn't find it.
Such thing wasn't considered, I doubt it will. > > I now write (another?) ordered dict, and I thought that the easiest > way to get the key with a given index would be "d.keys[5]". But it > means that d.keys is a collection of keys, not a method - and why not? > d.keys()[5] won't work on python 3.0 aswell because it returns a view now. > If backwards compatibility is a problem, we can make d.keys return the > same object that d.keys() currently returns, and add to the dict_keys > object a calling operation which raises a warning and returns itself. > > Of course, d.values and d.items are the same. > > Have a good day, > Noam > _______________________________________________ > 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/ggpolo%40gmail.com > -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves _______________________________________________ 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
