Feb. 17, 2006
10:08 p.m.
On 2/17/06, Adam Olsen <rhamph@gmail.com> wrote:
It's also makes it harder to read code. You may expect d[key] to raise an exception, but it won't because of a single line up several pages (or in another file entierly!)
Such are the joys of writing polymorphic code. I don't really see how you can avoid this kind of confusion -- I could have given you some other mapping object that does weird stuff. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)