On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum, 16.04.2010 16:33:
>>
>> I am fine with
>> declaring dict({}, **{1:3}) illegal, since after all it is abuse of
>> the ** mechanism.
>
> It's a bit like letting keys like 'not-an-identifier' pass through, though,
> isn't it?Not really. It's hard to imagine(*) an implementation that naturally can represent strings that look like identifiers but not other strings -- typically, "identifier-ness" must be explicitly checked. But it's easy to imagine an implementation that only allows strings and not other values. ___ (*) I didn't say impossible. I don't really care about any counter-examples you may come up with -- in practice they don't matter. But the type *does* matter in practice. -- --Guido van Rossum (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
