On 11/29/05, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > But thinking about "Errors should never pass silently", I propose that an > exception (KeyError seems most appropriate, though here it would be because a > key was present rather than absent) be thrown if one of the above attribute > names is supplied as a key in the user-supplied dict. +1 -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)