why does UserDict.DictMixin use keys instead of __iter__?

[Nick Coghlan]

Steven Bethard wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> .keys() is definitely part of the standard dictionary interface, and 
>> not something the mixin can derive from the generic container methods.
> 
> 
> Why is that?  Isn't keys derivable as:
> 
> def keys(self):
>     return list(self)
> 
> if __iter__ is defined?

As you may have guessed, I completely forgot about __iter__. . .

Cheers,
Nick.

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