Language design
Neil Cerutti
neilc at norwich.edu
Thu Sep 12 15:18:19 EDT 2013
On 2013-09-12, Markus Rother <python at markusrother.de> wrote:
> On 10.09.2013 08:09, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> What design mistakes, traps or gotchas do you think Python has? Gotchas
>> are not necessarily a bad thing, there may be good reasons for it, but
>> they're surprising.
>
> I have one more:
>
> Dictionaries should iterate over their items instead of their keys.
>
> Looking forward to contrary opinions.
Consider the 'in' operator.
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Neil Cerutti
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