(in response to msg5819)
I can see your point, and I have expected it to be dict() too. All I can find about 'stringmap' is this old documentation here (http://www.jython.org/archive/21/docs/differences.html)
Let me quote the relevant passage here:
The dictionaries used by classes, instances, and modules in Jython are not the same as the dictionaries created by {}. They are StringMap's which require all of their keys to be strings. After "class c: pass", c.__dict__[1] = 2 will work in CPython, but will raise a "TypeError: keys in namespace must be strings" error in Jython. Both behaviors are acceptable -- CPython might adopt Jython's approach in the future for the performance gains it can provide. |
