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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Ralf Schmitt wrote:
> Does python 2.4 catch any exception when comparing keys (which are not 
> basestrings) in dictionaries?

Yes. It does so for all equality compares that need to be done
as part of the hash collision algorithm (not only w/r to strings
and Unicode, but in general).

This was changed in 2.5, which now reports the exception.

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