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Dict API refinements (was PEP 274)

[Python-Dev] RE: Dict API refinements (was PEP 274) [Python-Dev] RE: Dict API refinements (was PEP 274)Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:55:36 -0500
[Tim]
>> BTW2, are we going to rename "dictionary" to "dict" before 2.2b2?
>> Before 2.2, "dict" was universally used on c.l.py to mean
>> dictionary, and I'm at least +0 on adopting that for official 2.2
>> use.

[Guido]
> Sounds good to me.  Should we adopt "dict" as an alias and keep
> "dictionary" as the official name, or vice versa, or simply eradicate
> dictionary and introduce dict in 2.2b2?

s/dictionary/dict/g is my preference:  TOOWTDI.

> It's up to you to implement this, I have some other things I need to
> get done first.

That's fine -- I can't think of anything needed I don't know how to do with
ease (heck, I even know where the dictionary() docstring lives <wink>),
except for changing the descr tutorial accordingly on python.org.




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