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

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Thu Aug 10 23:31:37 CEST 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

On 8/10/06, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

Hmm... Here's an idea... How about we change unicode-vs-str eq to issue a warning (and return False) instead of raising UnicodeException? That won't break much code (it's unlikely that people depend on this exception since it's generally a symptom of insane mixing of str and unicode). Then no further changes to dictobject.c are necessary (except fixing that one misleading comment). Good idea. Great! Now we need someone to volunteer to write a patch (which should include doc and NEWS updates) in time for beta 3 (Aug 18).

I'll give it a go.

Not sure what kinds of docs we'll need for this, though (and more importantly: where to put them, e.g. into the tutorial in the dictionary section, somewhere into the Unicode section ?)

-- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com

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