New submission from coyot linden :
The TypeError message:
TypeError: string indices must be integers
is ambiguously written. While some may understand the intent, others will read
it as confusingly saying that strings must be integers since dicts among other
things do have string indices
coyot linden added the comment:
You're welcome. I filed against 3.5 because that's what I have in our env at
the moment and I couldn't test and thus assert the issue in later versions.
Happy to see the problem addressed more generally.
The abstraction of the problem is the ambiguity
coyot linden added the comment:
The problem I have with "So only the 'index of string' interpretation makes
sense." is that by the time a developer has that understanding, they won't get
this error. So it's fine and logical to say from the behind-the-scenes view
that only sequ
coyot linden added the comment:
Sure, this can wait to the next release. I don't see it as groundshatteringly
;) urgent.
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coyot linden added the comment:
Ran into this also, got:
AH02429: Response header name '
coyot linden added the comment:
3.8 has come and gone, resubmitting this for 3.10
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