I see that I've misunderstood this entirely, nevermind me. --Brett
On 08/03/12 14:48, Brett Wilkins wrote: > I assume when you say "non-string keys" this includes numbers. > > But in Pypy, I can certainly use numbers: >>>> {'1':1, 1:2}.keys() > ['1', 1] > > I can even use a lambda (obviously not a string, a number, nor what I > would consider a primitive): >>>> {'1':1, (lambda x: x):2}.keys() > ['1', <function <lambda> at 0x00007fdb0b837da8>] > > These are in Pypy 1.8. > > --Brett > > On Thu 08 Mar 2012 14:39:40 NZDT, Victor Stinner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> During the Language Summit 2011 (*), it was discussed that PyPy and >> Jython don't support non-string key in type dict. An issue was open to >> emit a warning on such dict, but the patch has not been commited yet. >> >> I'm trying to Lib/test/crashers/losing_mro_ref.py: I wrote a patch >> fixing the specific issue (keep a strong reference to the MRO during >> the lookup, see #14199), but I realized that the real problem is that >> we allow custom objects in the type dict. >> >> So my question is: what is the use case of such dict? Why do we still >> support it? Can't we simply raise an error if the dict contains >> non-string keys? >> >> (*) http://blog.python.org/2011/03/2011-language-summit-report.html >> >> Victor >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/brett%40brett.geek.nz _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com