[Python-Dev] PEP 469: Restoring the iterkeys/values/items() methods

[Eric Snow]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2014, at 02:12 PM, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:
>
>>I don't see this as a key porting hassle *at all* and I don't understand
>>why they think this would significantly help their porting (it wouldn't).
>>The only real barrier is the str/bytes conversion, really, and this is even
>>more true for projects massively centered around IO, such as Twisted and,
>>I'm sure, the main (only?) reason why Twisted hasn't been ported yet.
>
> I agree.  I've been trying to get rid of iter*() when porting because most of
> the time, there is no significant memory savings to be achieved anyway.

+1

-eric