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He is using parentheses instead of square brackets, so the code is actually using a generator expression which will produce each value lazily.


Is mydict.items() also lazy?


In Python 3 yes, in Python 2 no. In Python 2 you'd say mydict.iteritems() if you were concerned about it.




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