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Wed Mar 29 19:48:57 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/063023.html

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> There are three big use cases:
> 
>    dict.keys
>    dict.values
>    dict.items
> 
> Currently these all return lists, which may be expensive in 
> terms of copying. They all have iter* variants which while
> memory efficient, are far less convenient to work with.

I'm still wondering what "far less convenient" means. Is it simply the 4
extra key presses? I find the iter* variants to be a great solution.

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[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Iterators for dict keys, values, and items == annoying :)