On 2/17/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's why I think has_key and in should return True for any key. > This leaves keys(), items(), and values(). From a pure point of > view, they should return infinite sets. Practicality beats purity, > so yes, d[k] could be considered a modifying operation.
I think practicality beats purity even for has_key/in; IMO these operations are more useful when they match keys() instead of always returning True. But someone should start writing some code to play with this. I have a working patch (including a hack for PyDict_GetItem()): python.org/sf/1433928 So there's no excuse to be practical now. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
