deprecation of has_key?

[Steven Bethard]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Steven Bethard wrote:
> 
>>> For me dictionary is a collection of key-value pairs, but not a
>>> collection of keys (that's what set is).
>>
>> Ahh, ok.  Now I understand.  I think you could probably search the 
>> python-dev archives and see why the decision was made as it was.  For 
>> pretty much all my purposes, "key in dict" is much more useful than 
>> "item in dict".  Practicality beats Purity and all. ;)
> 
> well, for all my purposes, I find that "dict.get(key)" (or sometimes 
> "dict[key]" is a lot more useful than has_key and in...

True enough.  Grepping through my (small) code base, I found only five 
uses of "key in dict" style code...

STeVe