Bengt Richter wrote: > I think the concept has converged to a replace-or-append-by-key ordering > of key:value items with methods approximately like a dict. We're now > into usability aspects such as syntactic sugar vs essential primitives, > and default behaviour vs selectable modes, ISTM.
Yes, and we would be good if we do not stop the discussion at this point with nothing, but really create such a sophisticated implementation. Whether it will become popular or go to the standard lib some day is a completely different question. > E.g., it might be nice to have a mode that assumes d[key] is d.items()[k][1] when > key is an integer, and otherwise uses dict lookup, for cases where the use > case is just string dict keys. I also thought about that and I think PHP has that feature, but it's probably better to withstand the temptation to do that. It could lead to an awful confusion if the keys are integers. -- Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
