On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:25:35 +0000 Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > As for the changing of the default in Python 3, that's because we decided > to make iterators the default everywhere. And that was mostly for > consistency, not performance reasons. It was also for flexibility as you > can go from an iterator to a list by just wrapping the iterator in list(), > but you can't go the other way around.
And two other reasons: - the API becomes simpler to use as there's no need to choose between .items() and .iteritems(), etc. - the 3.x methods don't return iterators but views, which have set-like features in addition to basic iterating Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
