[Python-Dev] Lockstep iteration - eureka!

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]

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

That's a -1, right? <0.1 wink>

Peter
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