[Python-Dev] Dicts are broken Was: unicode hell/mixing str and unicode asdictionarykeys
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Aug 9 03:43:32 CEST 2006
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Hiding programmer errors is not making life easier in the
> long run, so I'm -1 on having the equality comparison return
> False.
I don't see how this is greatly different from, e.g.
[1, 2] == (1, 2)
returning False. Comparing things of different types
may or may not indicate a bug in the code as well,
but we don't seem to worry that it doesn't raise an
exception.
--
Greg
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