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

[Greg Ewing]

Ian Bicking wrote:

> Which is off-topic here, except to say that a view on the tuple would be 
> useful in a way that returning a fancy tuple would not, because it could 
> wrap any DB-API-compliant result set.

A wrapper like that could be built quite generically.
Also, better to wrap the whole sequence, I think,
rather than each tuple individually:

   results = tableview(mycursor, 'price', 'upc')
   for row in results:
     print row.price, row.upc

Something for the itertools module, perhaps? (It
would need to be an iterator wrapper, not a
sequence wrapper, to work on DB cursors etc.)

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