[Python-Dev] Mundane dict __setitem__...

[Guido van Rossum]

> > Why?  You haven't given us much of a clue about your use case.
> 
> I did eventually, in another posting...

I have scoured the archives, but have not found your exposition of why
you would want this.  I only found the source of your
misunderstanding.

So I repeat the question (out of honest curiosity only): why would you
want this?

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