Montellese/xbmc — comment on commit 219406135b6e5fb0ed1a1332584cc62fd96804b8
File: xbmc/interfaces/python/xbmcmodule/JSONRPCClient.cpp line 97
By jmarshallnz:

I believe it's because a dict is a python-specific thing, so for jcarroll's stuff where he's isolating all this to a C++ API which can then be exposed to a bunch of different languages, it doesn't work so well.

I'm not 100% sure though, so wait on @jimfcarroll for comment :)