On Dec 1, 2007 7:09 PM, Neil Toronto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any use-cases for allowing namespace dicts (such as globals, > builtins and classes) to have non-string keys? I'm asking because I'm > planning on accelerating method lookups next, and the possibility of a > key compare changing the underlying dict could be a major pain. (It was > a minor pain for globals.)
Since this has always worked, I suspect there are probably some packages that depend on this. We could deprecate this however in 2.6 and forbid it in 3.0; it's easy enough to switch to string keys, either using a unique prefix or even non-identifier characters like '.' or '$'. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
