Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> What I'm saying is that Python does not prevent mutable keys but >> tries to do that with lists and tuples. >> >> I think Python should stop trying. > > Do you volunteer to answer all the posts from beginners complaining > that "the dict type is broken" because they used a list as a key and > then mutated it?
What happened to consenting adults? Even Java (of all languages) allows lists to be keys and simply notes: Note: great care must be exercised if mutable objects are used as map keys. <URL: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Map.html> Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
