Greg> Either you have a mostly-fixed set of field names, in which case Greg> you should be using a custom class instead of a dict, or the set Greg> of keys is dynamic, in which case you're mostly indexing with Greg> computed values. Lots of somedict['foo'] appearing is a code Greg> smell.
Unless, as I suspect, given the first message in the thread, the dict is arriving via JSON. Doesn't that only support the most basic builtin scalar and container types? You couldn't transfer class instances over JSON could you? As with XML-RPC I suspect your best fallback is a dictionary. Skip _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com