[Python-Dev] multidict API

2006-03-10 Thread Ian Bicking
I'm not really making any actionable proposal here, so maybe this is off-topic; if so, sorry. Back during the defaultdict discussion I proposed a multidict object (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/061264.html) -- right now I need to implement one to represent web form

Re: [Python-Dev] multidict API

2006-03-10 Thread Raymond Hettinger
[Ian Bicking] The question then is what the API should look like for such an object -- an ordered, multi-value dictionary. May I suggest that multidict begin it's life as a cookbook recipe so that its API can mature. Raymond ___ Python-Dev

Re: [Python-Dev] multidict API

2006-03-10 Thread Ian Bicking
Raymond Hettinger wrote: [Ian Bicking] The question then is what the API should look like for such an object -- an ordered, multi-value dictionary. May I suggest that multidict begin it's life as a cookbook recipe so that its API can mature. There's already quite a few recipes out

Re: [Python-Dev] multidict API

2006-03-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 11:25 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: I'm not really making any actionable proposal here, so maybe this is off-topic; if so, sorry. Back during the defaultdict discussion I proposed a multidict object (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/061264.html)

Re: [Python-Dev] multidict API

2006-03-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:12 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: There's already quite a few recipes out there. But I should probably collect them as well. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/107747