[Python-Dev] PEP 455: TransformDict

[Serhiy Storchaka]

13.09.13 21:40, Antoine Pitrou написав(ла):
> Both are instances of a more general pattern, where a given
> transformation function is applied to keys when looking them up: that
> function being ``str.lower`` in the former example and the built-in
> ``id`` function in the latter.

Please use str.casefold in examples.

>     >>> d = TransformDict(str.lower, [('Foo': 1)], Bar=2)

{'Foo': 1} or [('Foo', 1)].

> Providing a specialized container, not generic
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> It was asked why we would provide the generic TransformDict construct
> rather than a specialized case-insensitive dict variant.  The answer
> is that it's nearly as cheap (code-wise and performance-wise) to provide
> the generic construct, and it can fill more use cases.

Except lightweight IdentityDict which can be implemented more efficient 
than TransformDict(id). It doesn't need in calling the transform 
function, computing the hash of transformed key, comparing keys. But 
perhaps in many cases TransformDict(id) is enough.

> Python's own pickle module uses identity lookups for object
> memoization:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/0e70bf1f32a3/Lib/pickle.py#l234

Also copy, json, cProfile, doctest and _threading_local.