[].keys() and [].items() (Was: Why I think range is a wart)

[Jonathan Gardner]

Clark C . Evans scribbled with his keyboard:

> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:34:55AM -0500, ruud de rooij wrote:
> | perhaps lists should support .keys() and .items() for those operations
> | (analogous to dictionaries).
> 
> Very nice idea.  This is PEP worthy.  It is nice beacuse it
> does not introduce anything new; a list can easily be viewed
> as a mapping having a positive integer domain.  This is simple,
> consistent, and quite elegant.
> 

It certainly provides a feature I would use often.

Jonathan