[Python-3000] Dropping the parentheses after dict.keys?

[Guilherme Polo]

2007/12/13, Noam Raphael <noamraph at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> Was it considered to drop the parentheses after "dict.keys()", to make
> it "dict.keys" (that is, to make it a property instead of a method
> with no arguments)? If it was, please forgive me - a few minutes of
> googling didn't find it.

Such thing wasn't considered, I doubt it will.

>
> I now write (another?) ordered dict, and I thought that the easiest
> way to get the key with a given index would be "d.keys[5]". But it
> means that d.keys is a collection of keys, not a method - and why not?
>

d.keys()[5] won't work on python 3.0 aswell because it returns a view now.

> If backwards compatibility is a problem, we can make d.keys return the
> same object that d.keys() currently returns, and add to the dict_keys
> object a calling operation which raises a warning and returns itself.
>
> Of course, d.values and d.items are the same.
>
> Have a good day,
> Noam
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