[Python-Dev] Dict API refinements (was PEP 274) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:27:32 -0500

BTW, and not meaning to hijack your PEP , should dict.update() accept such an argument too? I didn't add it because

d.update(dictionary(suchanargument)) seemed "almost good enough".

Agreed; no need to add this to update().

BTW2, are we going to rename "dictionary" to "dict" before 2.2b2? Before 2.2, "dict" was universally used on c.l.py to mean dictionary, and I'm at least +0 on adopting that for official 2.2 use.

Sounds good to me. Should we adopt "dict" as an alias and keep "dictionary" as the official name, or vice versa, or simply eradicate dictionary and introduce dict in 2.2b2?

It's up to you to implement this, I have some other things I need to get done first.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)