[Python-ideas] Idea for the mapping API
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Sun Feb 10 03:34:39 CET 2008
On Feb 9, 2008 5:22 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> Perhaps, the dict() constructor should accept any object with a __dict__ method.
Won't that interfere with the existing __dict__ *attribute* of most
objects (e.g. modules)?
> The principle is that almost any object that has key and value pairs (named tuples for example) should be readily convertable to and
> from a dictionary. The current, non-uniform alternative is for the object to provide an asdict() method and for the user to call it
> directly.
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