[Python-Dev] PEP 455: TransformDict

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sat Sep 14 05:25:47 CEST 2013


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:00:18PM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 09/13/2013 05:49 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >
> >+1 on __transform__ method on dicts.
> 
> What would __transform__ do?  Just canonicalize the key, or also save the 
> original key?  How much front-end work will each user have to do to 
> actually use this new magic method to good effect?

Sorry, I missed replying to this part.

See Serhiy's post:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-September/128633.html

and suggested patch here:

http://bugs.python.org/issue18986




-- 
Steven


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