[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] >>Maybe there are also other reasons to promise this property that I'm not >>aware of. Certainly it seems like this property is useful and not hard >>to provide for "non-perverse" implementations, much like the > > Thanks, but we don't need the list comprehension(or do we) ? As the > return of d.iteritems() is already a list of tuples. > No it isn't: it's a dictionary item iterator. This can be used to provide a list, but it's self-evidently an iterator, not a list:
>>> d = dict.fromkeys(range(5)) >>> d.iteritems <built-in method iteritems of dict object at 0x4df604> >>> d.iteritems() <dictionary-itemiterator object at 0x4e02e0> >>> [x for x in d.iteritems()] [(0, None), (1, None), (2, None), (3, None), (4, None)] >>> regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
