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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 03:20:21 CET 2012


On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

2012/3/7 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>:

Can't we simply raise an error if the dict contains non-string keys? Sounds okay to me.

For 3.3, the most we can do is trigger a deprecation warning, since removing this feature will break currently running code. I don't have any objection to us starting down that path, though.

Regards, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia



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