Peter Funk wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg:
Shouldn't be hard to do... the C API for this is already in place: PyDict_Next(). I'd prefer a method .getitem(), though, which then returns a tuple (key, value).
IMO '.pickitem()' would be a better name, since many people would think, that 'getitem()' would take some kind of index as parameter. Nevertheless I think this is a nice idea, though.
Point taken. How about .fetchitem() -- this doesn't imply any ordering and can't get confused with __getitem__() et al. BTW, Moshe's .key() and .value() would break the strong binding between dictionary keys and values -- I don't see much use in them. Besides, .fetchitem() provides the same implied functionality. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Consulting: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/