[Python-Dev] Issue 14417: consequences of new dict runtime error

Fri Mar 30 21:13:36 CEST 2012

On 03/30/2012 03:02 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Hey Etienne, I am honestly trying to understand your contribution but
> you seem to have started a discussion about free speech. Trust me that
> we don't mind your contributions, we're just trying to understand what
> you're saying, and the free speech discussion isn't helping with that.

I agree.
> So if you have a comment on the dict mutation problem, please say so.

OK.
> If you need help understanding the problem, python-dev is not the
> place to ask questions; you could ask on the bug, or on the
> core-mentorship list as Nick suggested. But please stop bringing up
> free speech, that's not an issue.

Guido, thanks for the wisdom and clarity of your reasoning. I really 
appreciate a positive attitude towards questioning not so obvious problems.
So far I was only attempting to verify whether this is related to 
PEP-416 or not. If this is indeed related PEP 416, then I must obviously 
attest that I must still understand why a immutable dict would prevent 
this bug or not...
Either ways, I fail to see where this is OT or should be discussed on a 
more obscur forum than python-dev. :-)
Kind regards,
Etienne