On Wed, 2021-11-10 at 17:16 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 10:01:35PM -0800, Christopher Barker wrote: > > Maybe a stupid question: > > > > What are use cases for sorted dicts? > > > > I don’t think I’ve ever needed one. > > Good question :-)
It could be handy for deterministic iteration of its values, for example to allow serialized values to be easily compared, or to generate and verify a signatures. It's edge case material; I wouldn't think it's strong enough use case for inclusion in stdlib.
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