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[Guido van Rossum]

On Nov 27, 2007 3:56 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> > Most of these look like they are closely tied to the actual Python
> > implementation, and could be put in a new module e.g. "pyvm". Except
> > dictproxy and dict_keys etc., which might be better off in the
> > collections module.
>
> Can you do something usable with them from Python code (except
> type testing)?

Right now you cannot -- these all refuse to create instances. But it
shouldn't be hard to add this capability. I think these should all
accept arbitrary mappings as arguments rather than just dicts.
Possibly they should be renamed.

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