[Python-Dev] Dicts are broken Was: unicode hell/mixing str and unicode asdictionarykeys

[Josiah Carlson]

Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:23:10 -0700, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
> >There's one problem with generating a warning for 2.5, and that is the
> >same problem as generating a warning for possible packages that lack an
> >__init__.py; users may start to get a bunch of warnings, and be unaware
> >of how to suppress them.
> >
> >All in all though, I'm +0 on the warning, and +1 on it not raising an
> >exception in 2.5 .
> 
> Um.  This warning would indicate a bug in the code which will lead to
> actual misbehavior in a future version of Python.  The __init__.py
> warning would have indicated a deployment configuration which didn't
> actually cause any misbehavior.
> 
> They aren't the same case at all, unless you think that all warnings
> should be classed this way (a position I do not think is completely
> unreasonable, but since you singled out the package warning by way of
> comparison, I assume this is not the argument you are trying to make).

I see both as being a potential cause for a large number of warning
messages to people starting to use Python 2.5 (from 2.3 or 2.4) .

 - Josiah