"M.-A. Lemburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The point here is that a typical user won't expect any comparisons
> to be made when dealing with dictionaries, simply because the fact
> that you do need to make comparisons is an implementation detail.
Of course looking things up in a dictionary involves comparisons! How
could it not?
> So in this particular case silencing the exception might be the
> more user friendly way of dealing with the problem.
Please, no.
> That said, the problem still lingers in that dictionary, so it may
> bite you in some other context, e.g. when iterating over the list
> of keys.
For this reason, and others.
Cheers,
mwh
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