PEP 234: Iterators

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Just van Rossum [mailto:just at letterror.com]
> Roman Suzi wrote:
> > 
> > On 2 May 2001, Michael Hudson wrote:
> > 
> > >"Peter Caven" <p.caven at ieee.org> writes:
> > >
> > >> I really like the idea of returning different kinds of 
> iterators for
> > >> dictionaries as described:
> > >>
> > >> >           for key, value in dict.iteritems(): ...
> > >> >           for value in dict.itervalues(): ...
> > >> >           for key in dict.iterkeys(): ...
> > >
> > >Me too.
> > 
> > What about xitems, xvalues, xkeys (as in xrange?)
> 
> Please read the PEP: iterators largely make these redundant. 
> Eg. dict.iteritems()
> doesn't return a list of items (we already have dict.items() 
> for that) but an
> _iterator_, allowing you to iterate over the items _without_ 
> creating a list
> containing them all...

Perhaps it's only a matter of naming? How about itemIterator(),
valueIterator(), etc (or itemiter() if you don't like camelcase)

-- bjorn