Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What use do you have for it other than filtering >> duplicates from a list while retaining order? > > If this were the only use case, you are right. I cannot > remember the use case I once had right now, and probably > the code has been rewritten anyway. But I assume use > cases exist, otherwise there weren't so many recipes > for the ordered dictionary.
I'm not specifically lobbying for its inclusion in stdlib, but I often find an ordered dict useful when I want both ordered and random access, e.g. situations:
- database table fields/attributes - drop down field selectors
In both cases, I could get by with other techniques, but I would use stdlib ordered dicts if they were available. I also prefer the term "ordered dict" to LinkedHashXXX.
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