While I understand the argument for faster recompiles, dictobject.(c|h)
do not change that often, and thus faster recompiles are not critical. 
I am with Guido and would rather see the module moved over to public names.

Setting the priority to low as this is not critical in any way, although
I am all for making code more readable and thus will review any patch
that Anthon comes up with that uses the public names.