[Python-Dev] sys.implementation

[Eric Snow]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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> On 05/12/2012 08:04 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Eric Snow
>> <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If anyone has strong feelings for item-access over
>>> attribute-access, please elaborate.  I'm just not seeing it as that
>>> important and would rather finish up the PEP as simply as possible.
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>> I object to adding a new type to the stdlib just for this PEP. Since
>> iterating over the keys is significantly more useful than iterating
>> over the values, that suggests a dictionary as the most appropriate
>> type.
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> Why would anyone want to iterate over either of them?

Nick gave a pretty good example [1].  I just don't think it's
necessary for the PEP.

-eric


[1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-May/119412.html