Jean-Paul Calderone added the comment: I don't see the ability to use a slice as a dict key as particularly more surprising than the ability to use ints as dict keys. Someone who doesn't understand how dicts work can use either of these features to write broken programs.
I have thought about that example and it's precisely the kind of thing I would like to work. The behavior is consistent with that of using any other immutable value as a key. I don't have a use case right now (and by admitting so may be dooming this change - but L. Peter Deutsch has one, I think) but there's no way I would ever benefit from the current behavior, whereas I _might_ be able to do something useful with the proposed behavior. _____________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1733184> _____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
