Documentation of dict views change request

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Jan 19 16:41:25 EST 2014


On 19/01/2014 21:26, Charles Hixson wrote:
> Could it please be clearly documented that keys(), values(), and items()
> are not writeable.  I agree that this is how they should be, but it
> would be still better if they were clearly documented as such.  The
> labeling of them as dynamic, while true, was a bit confusing here.
> (I.e., it was talking about changing their value through other means of
> access rather than directly through the returned values.)
>
> P.S.:  Is it reasonable to return the items() of a dict in order to pass
> a read only copy of the values?
>

Just raise an issue here http://bugs.python.org/

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Mark Lawrence




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