Adam Olsen wrote: > Still -1. It's better, but it violates the principle of encapsulation > by mixing how-you-use-it state with what-it-stores state. In doing > that it has the potential to break an API documented as accepting a > dict. Code that expects d[key] to raise an exception (and catches the > resulting KeyError) will now silently "succeed".
Of course it will, and without quotes. That's the whole point. > I believe that necessitates a PEP to document it. You are missing the rationale of the PEP process. The point is *not* documentation. The point of the PEP process is to channel and collect discussion, so that the BDFL can make a decision. The BDFL is not bound at all to the PEP process. To document things, we use (or should use) documentation. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
