[Python-Dev] PEP 455: TransformDict (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at gmail.com
Sat Oct 5 01:41:33 CEST 2013

On Oct 4, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

I think "usability tests" should be conducted on people who actually have a need for the API. Otherwise they simply don't make sense: if you don't need an API, then you don't have to learn / understand it either.

You're right. Students don't make the best test subjects. It might be nice to present this at a Python meet-up or somesuch. Or some people on this list can present it at work to see how their colleagues do with it.

Also, it might be nice to get feedback from existing users of IdentityDicts or CaseInsensitiveDicts to see if they are bothered by the implementation having two underlying dictionaries.

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