[Python-3000] Thoughts on dictionary views

[Aahz]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>
> My recommendation is to take a more conservative route.  Let's make   
> dicts as simple as possible and then introduce a new collections      
> module entry with the views bells and whistles.  If the collections   
> version proves itself as enormously popular, useful, understandable,  
> and without a good equivalent, then it can ask for a promotion.       

+1, and thank you for cogently writing up the unease that I was feeling
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