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

Nigel Small nigel at nigelsmall.com
Wed Oct 30 19:32:53 CET 2013

True, but I could similarly argue that the nice thing about CaseInsensitiveString is it is usable for much more than dictionary keys - it just depends on your point of view.

There would be nothing stopping other types of dictionary key transformation being covered by other key data types in a similar way, I'm simply trying to raise the question of where the genericity could sit: in the dictionary or in the key.

Nigel

On 30 October 2013 17:04, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

On 10/30/2013 09:34 AM, Nigel Small wrote:

It strikes me that there could be an alternative approach to some of the use cases discussed here. Instead of a new type of dictionary, the case-insensitivity problem could be solved with something akin to a CaseInsensitiveString class [...] The nice thing about the TransformDict is it is usable for much more than simple case-insensitivity. -- Ethan _______** Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev at python.org https://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-dev<https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev> Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ nigel%40nigelsmall.com<https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/nigel%40nigelsmall.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20131030/db312fe5/attachment-0001.html>

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