On Jan 4, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > What code would break if we loosened this restriction? I guess > defining d.items() as zip(d.keys(), d.values()) would no longer fly, > but does anyone actually depend on this?
I don't know what code would break today; this was initially added to the set of promises made by the dict methods a decode ago, but it was in response to a need in the software I was working on at the time (possibly Grail, for which 2.6/3.0 isn't an issue). That question should probably be addressed to a fairly wide audience (comp.lang.python) since the promise has been there for so long. -Fred -- Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ 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
