Final note: one of the developers ran into a similar issue with dict and
has opened a discussion on pydev about how the C implementation might be
changed to have derived classes act more consistently without imposing a
time penalty on the normal use of dict. There might possibly be a change
by
"Almad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I discovered this behaviour in dictionary which I find confusing
...
> However, when constructing dictionary with dictionary in constructor
> like d = RegisterMap({'k':'v'}), __setitem__ is not called,
d.__setitem__
