What are dict_keys, dict_items and dict_values?

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The What’s new in 2.7 document is one place these are introduced. These “views” were introduced (proposed here) for Python 3 (and backported to 2.7, as you’ve seen) to serve as a best-of-all-worlds for the pieces of the dict they refer to.

Before we had the keys/values/items methods which simply made lists. This wastes memory by copying the dict’s information and we had the iterkeys/itervalues/iteritems methods that didn’t waste this memory but weren’t very featureful (the only thing you could do is iterate over them, and you could only do so once). These new views have logical features, such as set operations, efficient comparison, and being iterable multiple times.

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