On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Aaron Brady wrote: > 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.
Versus _.tolist(), which would also overwrite the previous return value? > 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. array has had that method since before Python v1.0. memoryview, for whatever reason, is not iterable; parser.ST is also not, since it doesn't convert to a flat sequence but rather a list tree. I don't see the special case for dict views, at all. -Miles -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
