Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.017 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:()': 0.09; 'window.': 0.09; 'effect.': 0.16; 'finney': 0.16; 'license.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; ':-)': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; "hasn't": 0.19; "python's": 0.19; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'went': 0.31; '-0700,': 0.31; 'changed.': 0.31; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'dramatic': 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'writes:': 0.31; 'not.': 0.33; 'surely': 0.36; 'ben': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'more': 0.64; 'subject: & ': 0.68; 'jul': 0.74; 'ethan': 0.84; 'furman': 0.84; 'medium.': 0.91; 'hands': 0.96; '2013': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ben Finney Subject: Re: Python 3: dict & dict.keys() Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:20:18 +1000 References: <51ef37e3$0$29971$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <51F0787F.9010406@stoneleaf.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rasputin.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xBD41714B X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 9CFE 12B0 791A 4267 887F 520C B7AC 2E51 BD41 714B X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-gpg.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kHpT0rPdOhMR9MWZXrngFMoXXf8= X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1374719106 news.xs4all.nl 15972 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:46254 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:51183 Ethan Furman writes: > On 07/23/2013 07:11 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:16:08 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: > >> And everything I thought I knew about when to use one or the other went > >> out the window. > > > > Surely not. The fundamental behaviour of Python's data model hasn't > > changed. > > Poetic effect. Dramatic license. Blah blah. ;) Text-only medium. Clarity of communication. Et cetera. :-) -- \ “Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in | `\ prayer.” —Anonymous | _o__) | Ben Finney