On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:48:22AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
How about:
for key in dict: ... # ... over keys
for key:value in dict: ... # ... over items
This is syntactically unambiguous (a colon is currently illegal in that position).
I won't comment on the syntax right now, I need to look at it for a while first :-) However, what about MAL's point about dict ordering, internally ? Wouldn't FOR_LOOP be forced to generate a list of keys anyway, to avoid skipping keys ? I know currently the dict implementation doesn't do any reordering except during adds/deletes, but there is nothing in the language ref that supports that -- it's an implementation detail. Would we make a future enhancement where (some form of) gc would 'clean up' large dictionaries impossible ? -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!