Greg> Either you have a mostly-fixed set of field names, in which case
Greg> you should be using a custom class instead of a dict, or the set
Greg> of keys is dynamic, in which case you're mostly indexing with
Greg> computed values. Lots of somedict['foo'] appearing is a code
Greg> smell.
Unless, as I suspect, given the first message in the thread, the dict is
arriving via JSON. Doesn't that only support the most basic builtin scalar
and container types? You couldn't transfer class instances over JSON could
you? As with XML-RPC I suspect your best fallback is a dictionary.
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