[Tutor] Dictionaries

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Sat Jan 28 01:48:45 CET 2006


> their equivalent for keys and values. I notice Ken suggests iteritems(),
> while Alan suggests items() only.

I'm old fashioned and rarely use new language features until I really have
to. Kent uses the more modern idioms. I think iteritems is the preferred 
usage nowadays, but its longer to type and for most jobs has no real 
advantage.

Alan G
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