[Python-ideas] Iteritems() function?

[Oleg Broytman]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 01:01:08PM +0200, Jan Kaliszewski wrote:
> Quite typical: iterate and do something with some_items -- a collection
> of 2-element items.
> 
>     for first, second in some_items:
>         ...
> 
> But for dicts it must use another form:
> 
>     for first, second in some_items.items():
>         ...
> 
> We must know it'll be a mapping, and even then quite usual bug is to
> forget to add that `items()'.

   You don't need a special buitin for that. Just call .items():

if hasattr(some_items, 'items'):
    some_items = some_items.items()
for first, second in some_items:
    ...

Oleg.
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