[Python-Dev] Dicts are broken Was: unicode hell/mixing str and unicode asdictionarykeys

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:23:10 -0700, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
>
>There's one problem with generating a warning for 2.5, and that is the
>same problem as generating a warning for possible packages that lack an
>__init__.py; users may start to get a bunch of warnings, and be unaware
>of how to suppress them.
>
>All in all though, I'm +0 on the warning, and +1 on it not raising an
>exception in 2.5 .
>

Um.  This warning would indicate a bug in the code which will lead to
actual misbehavior in a future version of Python.  The __init__.py
warning would have indicated a deployment configuration which didn't
actually cause any misbehavior.

They aren't the same case at all, unless you think that all warnings
should be classed this way (a position I do not think is completely
unreasonable, but since you singled out the package warning by way of
comparison, I assume this is not the argument you are trying to make).

Jean-Paul