Georg Brandl wrote:
Hello,
in follow-up to the recent "dictionary accumulator" thread, I wrote a little module with several subclassed dicts.
Comments (e.g. makes it sense to use super), corrections, etc.? Is this PEP material?
Docstrings, Documentation and test cases are to be provided later.
So, no further interest in this? Or should I write a PEP before?
I'd personally like to see a PEP. It'd give people a chance to come up with some use cases that really justify adding such specialized dicts to the standard library. The only use cases I can come up with would be better served by functions that take a sequence and produce a dict (e.g. by counting items or by grouping items into lists). Once the dict is built, I usually have no more need for the default-specialized methods.
I'm sure there are some good use cases out there for such dicts, but before I get behind this, I wouldn't mind seeing a few of them. =)
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