Hi Guys, please don't do it! We don't need this legacy really.
On 21 April 2014 08:41, Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> wrote: > Hi Nick, > > On 21 April 2014 07:39, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Notably, I recommend that hybrid code avoid calling mapping iteration > > methods directly, and instead rely on builtin functions where possible, > > and some additional helper functions for cases that would be a simple > > combination of a builtin and a mapping method in pure Python 3 code, but > > need to be handled slightly differently to get the exact same semantics > in > > Python 2. > > How about explicitly noting that in Python 2, a large fraction of > usages of the iterkeys(), itervalues() and iteritems() methods (that's > more than 99% in my experience, but I might be biased) should just be > written as keys(), values() and items() in the first place, with no > measurable difference of performance or memory usage? I would > recommend to anyone with a large Python 2 code base to simply do a > textual search-and-replace and see if any test breaks. If not, > problem solved. > > Couldn't agree more with Armin. -- http://lucasbardella.com
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