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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:24:44 +0200
From: Markus Rother <python@markusrother.de>
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On 10.09.2013 08:09, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> What design mistakes, traps or gotchas do you think Python has? Gotchas 
> are not necessarily a bad thing, there may be good reasons for it, but 
> they're surprising.

I have one more:

Dictionaries should iterate over their items instead of their keys.

Looking forward to contrary opinions.

Greets,
Markus