June 13, 2008
3:19 a.m.
Greg Ewing wrote: Implementations are also permitted to restrict namespace dictionaries to only accept string keys (I believe Jython does this for performance reasons - CPython just optimised the hell out of normal dictionaries that happen to only contain string keys instead). Jython's current version (2.2) and back did indeed restrict these dictionaries to accept string keys only, but future versions will allow non-string keys (the trunk version already does). Many
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote: frameworks use non-string keys in these dictionaries. -Frank