[Zope-dev] make zope.component.registry.Components inherit from dict?

[Martin Aspeli]

Chris McDonough wrote:
> Chris McDonough wrote:
>>> Off the top of my head, another way to think of this *might* be to say 
>>> that the 'dict access' is basically looking up a *named* utility 
>>> providing a very generic marker interface, e.g. 
>>> zope.component.interfaces.IUtility or even just 
>>> zope.interface.Interface. That way reg['foo'] == getUtility(IUtility, 
>>> name='foo'). Obviously, assignment would register in the same way.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure it's "better", though. :)
>> That would also be fine, and it would normalize things a bit, although the 
>> implementation would be harder and it would result in slower lookups.  But if 
>> it made folks feel better than inheriting from dict, I'd be +1 on it.
> 
> Meh, I just remembered that I tried this.  The current implementation requires 
> that the "name" value be a literal string object (or at least something 
> convertable to Unicode).  I think we could relax this requirement; it really 
> only needs to be hashable.  I wouldn't want to deploy the API if the keys were 
> required to only be strings.

Should be easy to fix, I'm sure. Why would you want something other than 
strings, though?

Martin

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