[Python-3000] Iterators for dict keys, values, and items == annoying :)

[Guido van Rossum]

On 3/23/06, Robert Brewer <fumanchu at amor.org> wrote:
> It is a hassle. I recently changed my ORM's API from returning iterators
> to lists based on similar user feedback (and I could have sworn I
> already made this comment on this issue, but I can't find it now). That
> experience hints to me that any interface that prefers iterators over
> lists is going to be resisted; builtins doubly so.

Interesting. Was your feedback also based on use in interactive
sessions only (like Jim's)?

Would the same objection exist against APIs that return "views" as I
described in a previous message (a la the Java collections package)?

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