PEP 234: Iterators

[Michael Hudson]

Roman Suzi <rnd at onego.ru> writes:

> >> 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.
> 
> Are them?  x* names are more visible in the code code.

But from .iteritems() you have some idea what you're getting; what
does .xitems() suggest to you (if you don't know about xrange)?

> I ca argue that iteitems must be spelled as "iter_items", to be like
> has_key, otherwise, there could be some mis-styling in them?

But arguably has_key is the odd one out here (getattr, hasattr,
__getitem__, etc).  But that's very much a minor point.

Cheers,
M.

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