Use iitems() to avoid lists of dict items on py2.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/coverage/backward.py b/coverage/backward.py
index b78158c1..6347501a 100644
--- a/coverage/backward.py
+++ b/coverage/backward.py
@@ -49,6 +49,16 @@ try:
 except NameError:
     range = range
 
+# A function to iterate listlessly over a dict's items.
+if "iteritems" in dir({}):
+    def iitems(d):
+        """Produce the items from dict `d`."""
+        return d.iteritems()
+else:
+    def iitems(d):
+        """Produce the items from dict `d`."""
+        return d.items()
+
 # Exec is a statement in Py2, a function in Py3
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
     def exec_code_object(code, global_map):