[Python-Dev] Non-string keys in type dict (original) (raw)
Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 07:50:41 CET 2012
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On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
2012/3/7 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>:
So my question is: what is the use case of such dict? Why do we still support it? Probably a side-effect of implementation.
Can't we simply raise an error if the dict contains non-string keys? Sounds okay to me. -- Regards, Benjamin
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I think the original reason given was that enforcing the type would make a performance hit, but I might be misremembering.
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