[Python-Dev] Dicts are broken Was: unicode hell/mixing str and unicode asdictionarykeys (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Sat Aug 5 00:46:21 CEST 2006

Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:23:10 -0700, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote: >There's one problem with generating a warning for 2.5, and that is the >same problem as generating a warning for possible packages that lack an >init.py; users may start to get a bunch of warnings, and be unaware >of how to suppress them. > >All in all though, I'm +0 on the warning, and +1 on it not raising an >exception in 2.5 .

Um. This warning would indicate a bug in the code which will lead to actual misbehavior in a future version of Python. The init.py warning would have indicated a deployment configuration which didn't actually cause any misbehavior. They aren't the same case at all, unless you think that all warnings should be classed this way (a position I do not think is completely unreasonable, but since you singled out the package warning by way of comparison, I assume this is not the argument you are trying to make).

I see both as being a potential cause for a large number of warning messages to people starting to use Python 2.5 (from 2.3 or 2.4) .

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