[Python-Dev] Expose dictproxy through collections rather than the types module?

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Sat Apr 21 16:09:31 CEST 2012


On Apr 21, 2012 7:11 AM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The internal dictproxy class was recently exposed as
types.MappingProxyType.
>
> Since it's not very discoverable that way, would anyone object if I
> moved things around so it was exposed as collections.MappingProxy
> instead? The main benefit to doing so is to get it into the table of
> specialised container types at the top of the collections module docs
> [1].

A discussion on this played out in http://bugs.python.org/issue14386.

-eric

>
> [1] http://docs.python.org/dev/library/collections
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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