LWN: Comments on "Pylint 1.6.0 released"

Pylint 1.6.0 released

jwilk — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 19:36:03 +0000

Yes, it is a bit odd; but it's also consistent with how the "in" operator works on dicts. That said, discrepancy between "in" and iterating wouldn't be unprecedented:

>>> s = 'foo'; x = 'oo'
>>> x in s
True
>>> x in iter(s)
False

Pylint 1.6.0 released

mathstuf — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:28:21 +0000

Having done a bit of Haskell and Rust, iterating over a dictionary to get the pairs is much more useful in my experience. The Python default iteration over a dictionary is odd to me…

Pylint 1.6.0 released

robert_s — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 14:53:49 +0000

I'm quite a fan of using .keys() because it's far more "literate" than just iterating through the dict. In fact, most places I see a dict being directly iterated through it is in fact a bug, the author having forgotten to use .items() or .values().