Re: [Python-3000] renaming suggestion

2007-08-01 Thread Greg Ewing
Fred Drake wrote: > Would you consider weakkeydict and weakvaluedict better than > WeakKeyDict and WeakValueDict? I like WeakKeyDict and WeakValDict because the existing names seem excessively long-winded, given that 'dict' or 'Dict' is a well-established abbreviation. But I actually think that

Re: [Python-3000] renaming suggestion

2007-08-01 Thread Fred Drake
On Aug 1, 2007, at 12:55 AM, hashcollision wrote: > I think that WeakKeyDictionary and should be renamed to WeakKeyDict > (same with WeakValueDictionary). This will make it consistent with > dict and collections.defaultdict. Hmm. I'm not opposed to providing new names for these classes if t

[Python-3000] renaming suggestion

2007-07-31 Thread hashcollision
I think that WeakKeyDictionary and should be renamed to WeakKeyDict (same with WeakValueDictionary). This will make it consistent with dict and collections.defaultdict. Sincerely ___ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/