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

[Mark Lawrence]

On 20/04/2014 06:31, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to write this up, Nick.
>
> However, I am -1 on it.  One of the allures of Python 3 is the increase
> in simplicity and elegance.  Restoring cruft does not help with that.
> Python 2 idioms that get restored to Python 3 must have real value:
> unicode literals, wire-protocol interpolations -- I don't feel that this
> comes any where close to meeting that bar.
>
> --
> ~Ethan~

+1 for this summary which echoes my sentiments entirely.

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Mark Lawrence

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