>>>>> "TP" == Tim Peters <tim_one@email.msn.com> writes:
TP> But if you add seq.items(), you had better add seq.keys() too,
TP> and seq.values() as a synonym for seq[:]. I guess the
TP> perceived advantage of adding seq.items() is that it supplies
TP> yet another incredibly slow and convoluted way to get at the
TP> for-loop index? "Ah, that's the ticket! Let's allocate
TP> gazillabytes of storage and compute all the indexes into a
TP> massive data structure up front, and then we can use the loop
TP> index that's already sitting there for free anyway to index
TP> into that and get back a redundant copy of itself!" <wink>.
Or create a generator. <oops, slap>
-Barry
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