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

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amauryfa at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 18:41:30 CET 2012

Hi,

2012/3/8 Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us>:

A little more experimentation shows that not all is well, however:

--> dir(Test) Traceback (most recent call last):  File "", line 1, in TypeError: unorderable types: int() < str() So what conclusion do you draw? That other changes (that have definitely been for the better) are making the 'feature' of non-string keys in namespace dicts less and less friendly.  Rather than letting it slowly fall into complete shambles we should go ahead and deprecate, then remove, that functionality.

Not that I disagree with the conclusion, but the obvious thing to do here is to fix dir() and return only string attributes, i.e. those you can access with getattr.

Cheers,

-- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc

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