[Python-Dev] Dict suppressing exceptions

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Aug 11 20:35:20 CEST 2006


Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> Me too, and that's what we'll do in py3k. But in 2.5, we're bound by
> the decisions we made in 1999-2000 about unicode. (Unless Martin has a
> convincing reason not to have a warning?)

Only the general anti-warning argument: it's not the developer which
will see the warning, but the end user. In this case, they might easily
get hundreds of warning in a short time, and these fill their Apache
log files. They complain about Python eating their disk space.

Regards,
Martin


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