[Python-Dev] Dict suppressing exceptions

[Guido van Rossum]

On 8/11/06, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:36:16PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 09:11:42PM +0200, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
> > > > I'm in favour of having this __eq__ just return False. I don't think
> > > > the warning is necessary, (...)
> > >
> > > +1
> >
> > Can you explain why you believe that no warning is necessary?
>
> Ah... mostly out of ignorance, I fear.  I did not realize there were
> strange cases like u"\xff" == "\xff".  I will leave this to more
> unicode-minded people to decide, but I'm still definitely of the idea
> that the __eq__ should not raise an exception.

Me too, and that's what we'll do in py3k. But in 2.5, we're bound by
the decisions we made in 1999-2000 about unicode. (Unless Martin has a
convincing reason not to have a warning?)

Marc-Andre, how's the patch coming along?

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