datetime.iterdate

[Peter Hansen]

Robert Brewer wrote:

> I understand and agree with your assessment in general; I obviously feel
> this specific one is worthwhile--it's too common of an idiom (coupled
> with extremely ugly syntax) to ignore. Makes you wonder why dict.update
> ever got included... ;)

Chances are good that the frequency of use of dict.update()
is _at least_ several orders of magnitude higher than the idiom
you refer to.