[Python-Dev] RE: Dict API refinements (was PEP 274)

[Guido van Rossum]

> [Tim]
> >> BTW2, are we going to rename "dictionary" to "dict" before 2.2b2?
> >> Before 2.2, "dict" was universally used on c.l.py to mean
> >> dictionary, and I'm at least +0 on adopting that for official 2.2
> >> use.
> 
> [Guido]
> > Sounds good to me.  Should we adopt "dict" as an alias and keep
> > "dictionary" as the official name, or vice versa, or simply eradicate
> > dictionary and introduce dict in 2.2b2?

[Tim]
> s/dictionary/dict/g is my preference:  TOOWTDI.

[Guido]
OK, let's do that.

> > It's up to you to implement this, I have some other things I need to
> > get done first.
> 
> That's fine -- I can't think of anything needed I don't know how to do with
> ease (heck, I even know where the dictionary() docstring lives <wink>),
> except for changing the descr tutorial accordingly on python.org.

OK, I'll fix that one.

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