I tried to reimplement weakref.WeakValueDictionary as a subclass of dict. The test passes except for one problem: To compare results test_weakref.py converts a weakdict to a real dict via dict(weakdict). This no longer works because PyDict_Merge() does a PyDict_Check() on the argument and then ignores all overwritten methods. (The old version worked because UserDict.UserDict was used).
The simplest solution is to replace the PyDict_Check() call with PyDict_CheckExact(), but this might slow things down too much, because the fallback code basically does: for key in iter(arg.keys()): self[key] = arg.__getitem__(key) Why can't we use: for key in iter(arg): self[key] = arg.__getitem__(key) instead? Servus, Walter _______________________________________________ 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