On Thursday 10 March 2005 17:29, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Or the implementation can have a switch to choose between keep-first > logic or replace logic. > > The latter seems a bit odd to me. The key position would be determined > by the first encountered while the value would be determined by the last > encountered. Starting with [(10, v1), (20, v2), (10.0, v3)], the > ordered dictionary's items would look like [(10, v3), (20, v2)].
Or, alternately, we keep the last occurence, and move it to the new position. There's a wide number of different use cases, each with a slightly different final result, and for this reason alone I'm -0 on it for the library. Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
