PEP 234: Iterators

[Michael Hudson]

com-nospam at ccraig.org (Christopher A. Craig) writes:

> Just van Rossum <just at letterror.com> writes:
> > Roman Suzi wrote:
> > > 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...
> 
> Much as xrange presently doesn't return a list of items, but an object
> that returns the next item with each successive call to __getitem__.
> I think his point was that having methods on the mapping objects named
> xitems, xvalues, and xkeys instead of iteritems, itervalues, and
> iterkeys would be inline with names of the present xrange and
> xreadlines functions. 

But .iteritems(), etc. are much better names.  So there.

Cheers,
M.

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