Peter Otten wrote: >> I noticed that the sequence types does not have these methods that the map >> types has: get(), items(), keys(), values(). >> It could seem useless to have them for sequences, but I think it will ease >> the creation of functions and methods that allow you to input a generic >> iterable as parameter, but needs to use one of these methods in case the >> parameter is a map.
> It will also break existing uses of duck typing. Yes, I suppose it's too late to introduce these methods to sequences. I'd like to see vdict implemented anyway. It can't break old code and add a map type that has a common interface with sequences. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
