Message5828

Oops, didn't mean to close the bug too.

However, it looks like there's an alternate solution - we can pretend it's a dict. This means special casing PyType#type___new__ such that it returns dict instead of stringmap. I have attached a small patch that does this, and it passes our regrtest.

However, I'm pretty certain that PyStringMap does not support the complete dict interface, including some (undocumented) support for concurrency. So I need to add the appropriate methods and tests before committing this patch.