lol

I don't mean to win anything, I think this is a place to discuss python programming, with people having different levels, who like and learn this language. Hundreds of threads here are about...

I think it's pure paranoia to suspect someone from stealing someone else's property just because he is extracting data from their web page. Why not jail people who post in the web development forums...

When you don't want people to download your documents, you don't put them online, so no, I don't think it's questionable. Thousands of programs extract data from websites. Why would figved's program...

Popitem is not meant to be a random generator.

I still don't agree. It's very easy to write a shuffle function

from random import randrange

def my_shuffle(the_list):
n = len(the_list)
while n > 1:
i = randrange(n)
...

I don't know exactly what you want to compare, but here is a code which measures the time necessary to execute 1,000,000 times a dictionary lookup (the statement '7498' in D)

from timeit import...