[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib rfc822.py

[Guido van Rossum]

>     Fred> Message.__delitem__(): If the key doesn't exist in the
>     Fred> dictionary, raise KeyError instead of failing silently!

[Barry]
> Uh, I think you just broke a considerable amount of code.  I know
> there's a lot of code in Mailman that relied on this behavior!

Erm, really?  And what made you believe that was the right thing to
do?  (I know, it wasn't you :-)  It is certainly very un-dict-like...

Will we have to roll this back just to save mailman, or will there be
other code that depends on this?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)