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Let Shapes and SlidePlaceholders fulfill the Mapping interface #800

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Both are essentially mappings and define the minimal interface
for collections.abc.Mapping (https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.abc.html#collections-abstract-base-classes),
i.e. __iter__, __getitem__ and __len__.

By inheriting from Mapping we mix in the full mapping behavior, .e.g. .get()
and .key() methods. This is to make these collections feel more pythonic.
Additionally, it's a real usability improvement: e.g. for SlidePlaceholders
one cannot guess the valid keys, which makes placeholders[idx] difficult to use.
Having placeholders.keys() available makes inspection much easier.

Both are essentially mappings and define the minimal interface
for `collections.abc.Mapping` (https://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.abc.html#collections-abstract-base-classes).

By inheriting from `Mapping` we mix in the full mapping behavior, .e.g. `.get()`
and `.key()` methods. This is to make these collections feel more pythonic.
Additionally, it's a real usability improvement: e.g. for `SlidePlaceholders`
one cannot guess the valid keys, which makes `placeholders[idx]` difficult to use.
Having `placeholders.keys()` available makes inspection much easier.
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