Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Thu Mar 8 02:42:31 CET 2012

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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.


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Benjamin

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