[Python-Dev] Dict suppressing exceptions (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Aug 10 21:11:42 CEST 2006

Guido van Rossum schrieb:

Hmm... Here's an idea... How about we change unicode-vs-str eq to issue a warning (and return False) instead of raising UnicodeException?

I'm in favour of having this eq just return False. I don't think the warning is necessary, and believe that people will complain about getting it, but if that is the only way to achieve consensus, so be it.

A warning would arguably have the same helping effect. (I suspect actually that we would have used warnings all along except we didn't have the warning framework when unicode was first introduced.)

I believe we would have neither had we rich comparisons available at the time. That unicode-vs-str-eq raises an exception is just a fall-out of not supporting cmp (and it is good that cmp is not supported - there is no meaningful way to order str/unicode if the string is not in the system encoding).

Regards, Martin

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