that mappings provide the methods \method{keys()}, \method{values()},
\method{items()}, \method{has_key()}, \method{get()}, \method{clear()},
\method{setdefault()}, \method{iterkeys()}, \method{itervalues()},
-\method{iteritems()}, \method{pop()},, \method{popitem()},
+\method{iteritems()}, \method{pop()}, \method{popitem()},
\method{copy()}, and \method{update()} behaving similar to those for
Python's standard dictionary objects. The \module{UserDict} module
provides a \class{DictMixin} class to help create those methods