Łukasz Langa <luk...@langa.pl> added the comment: FTR, some people questioned the purpose of read_dict(). Let me summarize this very briefly here:
- the API is using dictionaries similar to those in defaults= but has one level of depth more (sections) - initializing a parser with a dictionary produces syntax that is more natural in code - having a single method implementing reading a dictionary with unit tests, support for proper duplicate handling, etc. frees users from writing their own - we need that anyway for upcoming mapping protocol access discussed in #5412 - more detailed use cases in msg112429 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9452> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
