[Python-Dev] Lockstep iteration - eureka!

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "TP" == Tim Peters <tim_one@email.msn.com> writes:

    TP> But if you add seq.items(), you had better add seq.keys() too,
    TP> and seq.values() as a synonym for seq[:].  I guess the
    TP> perceived advantage of adding seq.items() is that it supplies
    TP> yet another incredibly slow and convoluted way to get at the
    TP> for-loop index?  "Ah, that's the ticket!  Let's allocate
    TP> gazillabytes of storage and compute all the indexes into a
    TP> massive data structure up front, and then we can use the loop
    TP> index that's already sitting there for free anyway to index
    TP> into that and get back a redundant copy of itself!" <wink>.

Or create a generator.  <oops, slap>

-Barry