[Python-Dev] Add a "transformdict" to collections

[Ethan Furman]

On 09/12/2013 07:43 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
> Yeah, so this is totally silly. What you're basically saying is "we
> don't need TransformDict since people can re-implement it themselves".

No, what I'm saying is that the "case-preserving" aspect of transformdict is silly.  The main point of transformdict is 
to enable, for example, 'IBM', 'Ibm', and 'ibm' to all match up as the same key.  But why?  Because you don't trust the 
user data.  And if you don't trust the user data you have to add the correct version of the key yourself before you ever 
process that data, which means you already have the correct version stored somewhere.

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~Ethan~