[Python-Dev] Dict API refinements (was PEP 274)

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>:

> Should we adopt "dict" as an alias and keep
> "dictionary" as the official name, or vice versa, or simply eradicate
> dictionary and introduce dict in 2.2b2?

I'd say eradicate "dictionary". There Should Only Be One
Way To Spell It.

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