On 29 November 2017 at 20:11, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > > In 3.7 I have removed an old-deprecated plistlib.Dict. [1] Actually it > > already was deprecated when the plistlib module was added to the regular > > stdlib in Python 2.6. > > > > Raymond noticed that that capability seemed nice to have. > > So nice in fact that I'm sure I've reimplemented something similar > several times. :) > > > What do you think about reviving this type as general purpose type in > > collections or types? Perhaps it can be convenient for working with > > JSON, plists, configuration files, databases and in other cases that > > need a dict with string keys. > > > > If reintroduce it, there are open questions. > > > > 1. The name of the type. > > > > 2. The location of the type. collections or types? Or other variants? > > > > 3. How it will collaborate with OrderedDict, defaultdict, etc? > > > > 4. Should it be a dict subclass, or a mixin, or a proxy? Or add several > > types? > > I also wonder whether PEP 557 dataclasses could provide this except in > the opposite direction, e.g. by optionally adding __getitem__ support. >
This was discussed in https://github.com/ericvsmith/dataclasses/issues/21 and it was decided to postpone this. -- Ivan
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