Re: Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar

From	Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar
Date	2016-03-26 10:29 +0000
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On 26/03/2016 00:35, Marco Sulla wrote:
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> I'd like to see vdict implemented anyway. It can't break old code and add a
> map type that has a common interface with sequences.
>

I cannot see this happening unless you provide a patch on the bug 
tracker.  However I suspect you can get the same thing by subclassing 
dict.  Why don't you try it and let us know how you get on?

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Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar "Marco S." <mail.python.org@marco.sulla.e4ward.com> - 2016-03-22 20:54 +0100
  Re: Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-23 22:26 +1100
    Re: Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar Marco Sulla <marcosullaroma@gmail.com> - 2016-03-26 01:18 +0100
      Re: Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-26 22:41 +1100
    Re: Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar Marco Sulla <marcosullaroma@gmail.com> - 2016-03-26 01:35 +0100
    Re: Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-26 10:29 +0000

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