Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:39:09 +0100, Mathias Panzenboeck wrote: > > Yes, this is known. I think IronPython uses a specialized dictionary for > > members, which prohibits > > malformed names. I don't know if there will be such a dictionary in any > > future CPython version. > > (Would be good.) > > Why would it be good? > > How many bugs have you found that were caused by this behaviour?
It's not bugs. A specialized dictionary could be better optimized if you know it can only hold Python identifiers. There's talk of such a dictionary in Python 3000. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
