[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] dict.items as attributes [Was: The bytes type]

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jan 16, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Jim Jewett wrote:

> Other than dict.items (and .keys and .values) returning a non-list,
> are there any other cases where the Py3K idiom can't already be used
> in (or at least backported to) Py 2.x?

I know Guido is against attribute syntax for dict.items and friends,  
and I agree with him for reasons I can't quite put my finger on.   
But, would it be possible to support both the py3k way and the Python  
2 way if you accepted attribute syntax for returning the view  
thingie?  Couldn't that view thingie have an __call__ that returned  
the backward compatible list object?

- -Barry

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