[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which is also my initial puzzle, items() and iteritems() already gives > you the tuples, why such gurantee or the others ? Doesn't that violate > the general idiom that if we can do certain thing in one way, there > better be one and only one way. > > Are there other usage scenarios that would be benefit from this as the > example given is not convincing for me.
As Jeff's reply emphasizes, the "examples" show tuples with *value* and then *key*, not the other way around which is what .items() and .itemitems() gives you. Anyway, you didn't ask for good examples of use, just "why is it guaranteed", and that's all I was showing you. Whether it was a good idea might be an interesting discussion, but probably not a particularly useful one given once again that it's unlikely this particular feature could be undone now that code exists (we can assume) which is dependent on it. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
