[Python-Dev] unicode hell/mixing str and unicode as dictionary keys

[Bob Ippolito]

On Aug 3, 2006, at 6:51 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
>> Perhaps we ought to add an exception to the dict lookup mechanism
>> and continue to silence UnicodeErrors ?!
>
> Seems to be that comparison of unicode and non-unicode
> strings for equality shouldn't raise exceptions in the
> first place.

Seems like a slightly better idea than having dictionaries suppress  
exceptions. Still not ideal though because sticking non-ASCII strings  
that are supposed to be text and unicode in the same data structures  
is *probably* still an error.

-bob