On Jul 24, 2013 7:25 AM, "Peter Otten" <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > > Ethan Furman wrote: > > > So, my question boils down to: in Python 3 how is dict.keys() different > > from dict? What are the use cases? > > I just grepped through /usr/lib/python3, and could not identify a single > line where some_object.keys() wasn't either wrapped in a list (or set, > sorted, max) call, or iterated over. > > To me it looks like views are a solution waiting for a problem.
What do you mean? Why would you want to create a temporary list just to iterate over it explicitly or implicitly (set, sorted, max,...)? Oscar
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