Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > R. David Murray added the comment: > > You are conceptualizing this very differently. In our view, this > data structure is for cases where the original key is the most > important piece of information (about the keys). The transformation > in the lookup process is entirely in the service of looking up the > value paired with that original key when there is more than one > possible representation of that key. It is the original key that is > critical when re-serializing the data or otherwise making use of the > keys for anything other than lookup. So this is about making the > data structure succinctly model the problem domain, which is what OO > is supposed to be good at :)
Thanks for putting it much more convincingly than my python-dev response :-) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18986> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
