On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > 2012/3/7 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com>: >> So my question is: what is the use case of such dict? Why do we still >> support it? > > Probably a side-effect of implementation. > >> Can't we simply raise an error if the dict contains >> non-string keys? > > Sounds okay to me. > > > -- > Regards, > Benjamin > _______________________________________________ > 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/fijall%40gmail.com
I think the original reason given was that enforcing the type would make a performance hit, but I might be misremembering. _______________________________________________ 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
