2007/12/13, Guilherme Polo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
You know, that is a very well-reasoned explanation. > > > > 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. > Let me clarify myself. I just meant to say that I think that "for x in d.keys" looks better than "for x in d.keys()", and that if you create a dict subclass which has ordering, "d.keys[5]" looks really better than "d.keys()[5]". 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/archive%40mail-archive.com