I think this cannot just be considered a bug fix, and it seems somewhat fundamental (catching arbitrary exceptions is controversial), so I recommend finding a core dev to sponsor a PEP. (Or finding one who thinks it is obviously a bug and will approve a PR.)
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 04:43 Dominik Vilsmeier <dominik.vilsme...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 07.07.20 19:41, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > > Dominik Vilsmeier writes: > > > > > So if you're dealing with items views and want to compare them to a > set > > > representing dict items, then you need an extra `try/except` in > order to > > > handle non-hashable values in the items view. > > > > Sounds like you have a change to propose here, then. Put the > > try/except in the __eq__ for the items view class when comparing > > against a set. I would expect it to be accepted, as comparing items > > views is pretty expensive so the slight additional overhead would > > likely be acceptable, and if you get the exception, you know the > > equality comparison against a set is false since a set cannot contain > > that element, so this possibility can't affect worst-case performance > > by much, if at all. > > So it seems there is a consensus on the fact that this is undesirable > behavior and it can be fixed relatively easy. > > What's the next step then? Should this be discussed further on the > mailing list? Should I open an issue at bpo? > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/G7N7WV5C6JKLIFAA5NGUXW7VEH4CMRKT/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido (mobile)
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