Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 2/17/06, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ahem, I'm still looking for ways to 'overtake' the dict to implement >> weird and fancy things. Can on_missing be overridden in subclasses (writing >> the subclass in C would not be a problem)? > > Why ahem? > > The answer is yes.
Ok, so that allows to pass the key, for example, to the default_factory - allowing the case insensitive lookup in namespaces. Thomas _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
