Why is dictionary.keys() a list and not a set?

[jepler at unpythonic.net]

You can already get a set from a dictionary's keys in an efficient manner:
>>> l = dict.fromkeys(range(10))
>>> set(l)
Set([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])

Jeff
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