[Python-Dev] Non-string keys in type dict

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> 2012/3/7 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>:
>> So my question is: what is the use case of such dict? Why do we still
>> support it?
>
> Probably a side-effect of implementation.
>
>> Can't we simply raise an error if the dict contains
>> non-string keys?
>
> Sounds okay to me.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Benjamin
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I think the original reason given was that enforcing the type would
make a performance hit, but I might be misremembering.