[Python-Dev] Non-string keys in type dict (original) (raw)

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Thu Mar 8 18:20:52 CET 2012


On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

During the Language Summit 2011 (*), it was discussed that PyPy and Jython don't support non-string key in type dict. An issue was open to emit a warning on such dict, but the patch has not been commited yet. It should be noted that Jython started supporting non-string dict keys in version 2.5. IIRC this was done to get Django running, but in general we decided to go with compatibility.

-Frank



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