Benjamin Peterson added the comment: An error is out of the question for compatibility reasons. I think the idea for a warning should be brought up on the python-ideas list. Silently rejecting duplicates has a lot of precedent, though. For example, set literals and the dict constructor:
>>> dict((("dfs", 2), ("dfs", 3))) {'dfs' : 3} ---------- nosy: +benjamin.peterson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16385> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com