dict.items() vs dict.iteritems and similar questions

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <mailman.5140.1173979852.32031.python-list at python.org>, skip wrote:

> Are you sure?  There's no guarantee that an iterator will terminate:
> 
>     len(list(itertools.cycle(range(10))))

You have infinite memory?  ;-)

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch