[Python-Dev] Python3: speed efficiency vs user friendliness (my first experience)

[Greg Ewing]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> The main one that comes to my mind is that other than looping, any time 
> I want to process dict.items() etc I often need to call list() first.

I don't think that's such a bad thing. It makes it clear that
you're performing a more expensive operation than just looking
at the keys.

-- 
Greg