"Steven Bethard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ahh, ok. Now I understand. I think you could probably search the > python-dev archives and see why the decision was made as it was. For > pretty much all my purposes, "key in dict" is much more useful than "item > in dict". Practicality beats Purity and all. ;)
In '[for] x in mydict:', x could potentially be key, value, or item-pair. All three were considered and discussed -- I believe on clp-- and key chosen as the most useful. A specific analogy brought forth was the phone book, a mapping of names to phone number and maybe address. The decision was definite closer to a coin-toss to a no-brainer. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
