[Python-3000] Iterating over a dict

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Mon Apr 3 01:09:32 CEST 2006


On 4/2/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On 4/2/06, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> 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 such a list/PEP/whatever).
>
> Excellent idea! It should be one of the meta-peps (in the 3001-3099 range).
>
> Ideally the list should either point to the discusussion explaining
> the decision, or provide a capsule explanation. (Braces are exempted
> from this policy; if someone doesn't understand why we're not doing
> braces they should probably look elsewhere... :-)

There is PEP 13 of which there is a draft that I wrote at PyCon and I
am waiting to have edited by Thomas and Tim.  That lists ideas
rejected for Python regardless of version.  If that PEP does go in the
Py3K version could reference PEP 13 and get a good list of things that
are not changing.

-Brett


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