[Python-Dev] unicode hell/mixing str and unicode as dictionary keys

[David Hopwood]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> David Hopwood schrieb:
>>Michael Foord wrote:
>>>David Hopwood wrote:[snip..]
>>>
>>>>>>we should, of course, continue to use the one we always used (for
>>>>>>"ascii", there is no difference between the two).
>>>>>
>>>>>+1
>>>>>
>>>>>This seems the most (only ?) logical solution.
>>>>
>>>>No; always considering Unicode and non-ASCII byte strings to be distinct
>>>>is just as logical.
>>
>>I think you must have misread my comment:
> 
> Indeed. The misunderstanding originates from your sentence starting with
> "no", when, in fact, you seem to be supporting the proposal I made.

I had misunderstood what the existing Python behaviour is. I now think
the current behaviour (which uses "B.decode(system_encoding) == U") is
definitely a bad idea, especially in cases where the system encoding is
not US-ASCII, but I agree that it can't be changed for 2.5.

-- 
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>