python 3 dict: .keys(), .values(), and .item()

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/07/2017 03:04 PM, Peter Otten wrote:
> Ethan Furman wrote:
>
>> In Python 2 we have:
>>
>>     dict().keys()   \
>>     dict().items()   -->  separate list() of the results
>>     dict().values() /
>>
>> and
>>
>>     dict().iter_keys()   \
>>     dict().iter_items()   -->  integrated iter() of the results
>>     dict().iter_values() /
>
> I guess you didn't use these as often as I did ;)
>
> By the way, there are also the virtually unused/unknown dict.viewXXX()
> methods that are the exact? equivalent to the dict.XXX() methods in Python
> 3.

Ah, right -- in fact, those are the ones that got transplanted, I think.

>> In other words, what used to be a completely safe operation now is not.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Is code that was written for Python 3 riddled with list(...) calls?

Generally, or just around dicts?  I know I've placed list() around a few dict
calls (when I am going to modify the dict in the loop) or I make a separate list
to save the modifications and the bulk change in a separate loop.

> Do you see
>
> RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration
>
> regularly?

No, thank goodness.  Still embarrassing when it happens, though.  :(

Thinking on it some more, I'm pretty sure I would have ended up with another
exception of a different flavor, so overall no extra harm done.  ;)

--
~Ethan~