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On 29/03/2016 23:29, Marco Sulla via Python-list wrote:
>
> Let me add that an items() and keys() for sequences will be also
> useful for day-by-day programming, since they will be a shortcut for
> enumerate(seq) and range(len(seq))
>

I cannot remember the last time I needed range(len(seq)) so I don't see 
how it can be "useful for day-by-day programming".  There is usually a 
more Pythonic way of doing things.  You need to get adjacent elements 
from a sequence?  Use the pairwise recipe from 
https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence