[Python-Dev] PEP 469: Restoring the iterkeys/values/items() methods

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 19, 2014, at 02:12 PM, Giampaolo Rodola' wrote:

>I don't see this as a key porting hassle *at all* and I don't understand
>why they think this would significantly help their porting (it wouldn't).
>The only real barrier is the str/bytes conversion, really, and this is even
>more true for projects massively centered around IO, such as Twisted and,
>I'm sure, the main (only?) reason why Twisted hasn't been ported yet.

I agree.  I've been trying to get rid of iter*() when porting because most of
the time, there is no significant memory savings to be achieved anyway.

-Barry