The PEP 3100: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3100/ says:
Return iterators instead of lists where appropriate for atomic type methods (e.g. dict.keys(), dict.values(), dict.items(), etc.); iter* methods will be removed. Better: make keys(), etc. return views ala Java collections??? ... To be removed: dict.setdefault()? [15] dict.has_key() method [done] I may be sleepy now, but maybe the keys() method too can be removed; otherwise the following two become really the same: print list(adict) for k in adict: ... print list(adict.keys()) for k in adict.keys(): ... Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
