On Mar 27, 7:14 am, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 27, 3:44 pm, Aaron Brady <castiro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Is there a possibility of the dict_values, dict_items, and dict_keys > > objects growing a 'tolist' method? It's one of those little things > > that contributes to one's user experience. > > Probably not, because the Python approach is to use the builtins. I'm > not sure what you feel mydict.values().tolist() might offer over the > conventional list(mydict.values()). > > So yeah, -1.
I'd like to address this, even though if I weren't an interested party, I'd probably recognize a -1 too. I'll try to be impartial. The suggestion is entirely a "look and feel" observation. In an interactive session, to examine the contents of a dictionary I've just created, I need to type list(_), and lose the previous return value. It's a better for my <anecdote> train of thought too. I don't necessarily advocate that every collection and iterator should grow one, though I don't really have the case for a special case for dict views. OTOH, I find three 'tolist' methods in the standard library: array, memoryview, and parser.ST. It could offer the same as they do. Mostly a convenience request I guess. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
