[Edu-sig] Considering Idioms

kirby urner kirby.urner at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 02:12:04 CEST 2008


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:59 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

<< SNIP >>

>  The reasoning here (as I understood it) is thedict is an
>  iterable and so has a __next__, meaning we don't need
>  to flag it as anything special with the keys() modifier, i.e.
>  stick with a more generic syntax to where the reader is
>  just thinking "iterable" and not "dictionary" per se.

Note that in 2.x there's no __next__ method per se i.e. no
under-under "rib" (special name).  This changed with PEP
3114:  http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3114/

Kirby


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