On Aug 3, 2006, at 6:51 PM, Greg Ewing wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> Perhaps we ought to add an exception to the dict lookup mechanism >> and continue to silence UnicodeErrors ?! > > Seems to be that comparison of unicode and non-unicode > strings for equality shouldn't raise exceptions in the > first place.
Seems like a slightly better idea than having dictionaries suppress exceptions. Still not ideal though because sticking non-ASCII strings that are supposed to be text and unicode in the same data structures is *probably* still an error. -bob _______________________________________________ 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
