[Python-3000] question Re: Need help completing ABC pep (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Apr 23 05:36:04 CEST 2007

On 4/22/07, Samuele Pedroni <pedronis at openendsystems.com> wrote:

If we keep s % d (do we? reading the list archives and the peps didn't give an answer, I suppose it depends if PEP 3101 is accepted):

will it check if d is a Mapping or continue to use the current heuristics? I suppose this is a legitimate question for other corners of the language, std lib.

Any place that currently uses a heuristic should be changed to check for Mapping instead (actually, in this particular case BasicMapping, as the % operator doesn't need to iterate over the keys or items). And most places that currently check for a dict should probably check for a Mapping or BasicMapping as well. BUT BUT BUT -- this is only for places that already check (like s%d). Places that just plunge in and call getitem should continue to do so and should not be modified to require a flavor Mapping. Similarly, assignment to sys.stdout shouldn't be constrained to subclasses of io.IOBase; we can and should continue to use duck typing where it makes sense.

PS. I fully intend to be dropping s%d in favor of the PEP 3101 solution.

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