python bijection

[Joshua Bronson]

On Nov 19, 9:17 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Apart from the GPL

what Ben said :)

> it seems perfectly fine to release, and looks like
> an interesting strategy.  I've wanted one of those once in a while,
> never enough to bother looking for one or writing one myself.

glad to hear it! i'll release it to pypi if such feedback continues.

> But you should absolutely not inherit from dict if you're overriding
> all it's methods.  It's useless and wasteful to do that, perhaps
> dangerous.  You end up using bytes for a small hash table that's never
> used.
>
> Plus Python 3 has a notion of Abstract Base Classes: it will allow
> customization of isinstance to advertise that your class implements
> MutableMapping, which is the right way to do it.

Actually that's what I was originally thinking of doing but didn't go
through with it in my first pass out of concern that users might want
isinstance(bijection(), dict) to be True. Now that you bring it up, I
agree that it's the correct way to do it, and have reimplemented
bijection as a MutableMapping (ABCs are actually in Python 2.6). Take
a peek at the new and improved http://bitbucket.org/jab/toys/src/tip/bijection.py
if you get a chance and let me know how it looks!

Anyone have any other feedback? For instance, is offering the __call__
syntax for the inverse mapping wonderful or terrible, or maybe both?

Thanks,
Josh