[Python-Dev] Dict suppressing exceptions

[Guido van Rossum]

On 8/10/06, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Hmm... Here's an idea... How about we change unicode-vs-str __eq__ to
> > issue a warning (and return False) instead of raising
> > UnicodeException? That won't break much code (it's unlikely that
> > people *depend* on this exception since it's generally a symptom of
> > insane mixing of str and unicode). Then no further changes to
> > dictobject.c are necessary (except fixing that one misleading
> > comment).
>
> Good idea.

Great! Now we need someone to volunteer to write a patch (which should
include doc and NEWS updates) in time for beta 3 (Aug 18).

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