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Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:26:03 -0800
From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
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Could it please be clearly documented that keys(), values(), and items() 
are not writeable.  I agree that this is how they should be, but it 
would be still better if they were clearly documented as such.  The 
labeling of them as dynamic, while true, was a bit confusing here.  
(I.e., it was talking about changing their value through other means of 
access rather than directly through the returned values.)

P.S.:  Is it reasonable to return the items() of a dict in order to pass 
a read only copy of the values?

-- 
Charles Hixson