Why is dictionary.keys() a list and not a set?
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Nov 24 03:13:46 EST 2005
bonono at gmail.com wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> > performance is of course another aspect; if you *need* two parallel
> > lists, creating a list full of tuples just to pull them apart and throw
> > them all away isn't exactly the most efficient way to do things.
> >
> > (if performance didn't matter at all, we could get rid most dictionary
> > methods; "iterkeys", "in", and locking should be enough, right?)
> If I need two parallel list(one key, one value), I can still use the
> same [(k,v)] tuple, just access it as x[0], x[1].
that's a single list containing tuples, not two parallel lists.
this is two parallel lists:
k = d.keys()
v = d.values()
assert isinstance(k, list)
assert isinstance(v, list)
use(k, v)
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