On 4/1/06, Thomas Lotze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder what's the reason for iterating over a dict by keys:
>
> >>> for x in {1:"a", 2:"b"}:
> ... print x
> ...
> 1
> 2
>
> I find it much more intuitive for the values, "a" and "b", to be accessed.
> This is particularly confusing
Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 4/1/06, Thomas Lotze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wonder what's the reason for iterating over a dict by keys:
>>
>> >>> for x in {1:"a", 2:"b"}:
>> ... print x
>> ...
>> 1
>> 2
>>
>> I find it much more intuitive for the values, "a" and "b", to be acces
On 4/2/06, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A quick idea of mine: Wouldn't it be useful to maintain a list of what will
> not change, collected in the discussions here? That way, people eager to
> suggest
> braces and whatnot can be referred to it.
>
> (I'd be volunteering to maintain suc
Am Sun, 02 Apr 2006 09:29:13 -0700 schrieb Guido van Rossum:
> Just to confirm what's already been said, this was considered very
> carefully and won't change.
OK, thanks.
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On 4/2/06, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/2/06, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A quick idea of mine: Wouldn't it be useful to maintain a list of what will
> > not change, collected in the discussions here? That way, people eager to
> > suggest
> > braces and whatno
Thomas Lotze wrote:
> The reason I ask this on the python-3000 list is that I wonder whether the
> iterating behaviour of dicts might be changed in Python 3k,
I doubt it. This issue was considered very carefully
when support for iteration was added to dicts, and
I'm not aware that the reasons for
"Thomas Lotze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> The reason I ask this on the python-3000 list is that I wonder whether
> the
> iterating behaviour of dicts might be changed in Python 3k, so that in
> the
> above code, foo() would be applied to the dict's values.
Di
Thomas Lotze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder what's the reason for iterating over a dict by keys:
I suspect that at least part of the reason is that given a key you can
easily get the corresponding value, but given the value it's difficult
to get the key. Seems like a good choice for "bare" dict ite
Hi,
I wonder what's the reason for iterating over a dict by keys:
>>> for x in {1:"a", 2:"b"}:
... print x
...
1
2
I find it much more intuitive for the values, "a" and "b", to be accessed.
This is particularly confusing as iterating over tuples, lists and sets in
the same way does access t
