[Grok-dev] Re: Iterativly emptying a grok.container shows weird behavior

[Dr. Volker Jaenisch]

Hi Kevin!
Kevin Teague schrieb:
>
> Python 3 will have dict.keys() return an iterator and not a list:
>
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3106/
That is quite interesting.

To quote the PEP:
> The original plan was to simply let .keys(), .values() and .items() 
> return an iterator, i.e. exactly what iterkeys(), itervalues() and 
> iteritems() return in Python 2.x. However, the Java Collections 
> Framework [1] <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3106/#id3> suggests 
> that a better solution is possible: the methods return objects with 
> set behavior (for .keys() and .items()) or multiset (== bag) behavior 
> (for .values()) that do not contain copies of the keys, values or 
> items, but rather reference the underlying dict and pull their values 
> out of the dict as needed.
So .keys() will not return an iterator but a set like operator which 
also behaves like an iterator.
This is from my opinion not exactly what OOBTreeIterator is.

People mingle Lists with Arrays, Pointers with References do a lot of harm.
Lets name different things different. Nothing is more dangerous than 
things that are quite the same.

Best Regards,

Volker

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