>> I find "iter<anything>" to be extremely ugly and hope to avoid using >> them altogether until they are gone in Py3k.
Drew> Ugly, maybe, but don't you take a decent performance hit when Drew> loading the entire dict into memory at once? Especially if the Drew> dict is large? Sure, but I try hard to keep my dicts small. ;-) Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list