> But, looking > at the ABC page right now, to implement Dict, I'll need to inherit > Mapping and MutableContainer.
Dave, I completely feel your pain. I think dict is overly complex (and Mapping). Almost nobody needs a whole "dict" -- it's become a grab bag for handy tricks to perform with mapped sets. After all, even Container implements a "mapping", via the "get" method. I think we need simpler builds on Container that are what people use (without going down Java's "twisty little maze of twisty little mazes" class library path). I also think that the interface to Sequence could be made considerably simpler by making the Slice object more explicit. Right now, there's a lot of syntactic sugar on the interfaces to "dict" and "list", and that sugar, while useful, is also confusing. Bill _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
