Tim Peters wrote:
...
[Raymond]
Even then, we need to drop the concept of having the flags as counters
rather than booleans.
[Georg Brandl]
Yes. Given that even Tim couldn't imagine a use case for counting the
exceptions, I think it's sensible.
That's not it -- someone will "find a use" for anything. It's
unfortunate that we used a dict with counts because the /standard/
we're trying to meet requires no such thing, and clearly had a "pile
of on/off bits" model in mind. Extending a standard without strong
need creates problems (for example, this one <0.5 wink>).
What do you guys think about deprecating it for Py2.5?
Raymond
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