Steven Bethard wrote: > On 4/17/06, Russell E. Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At some point folks were discussing use cases of "make" where it was >> important to preserve the order in which items were added to the >> namespace. >> >> I'd like to suggest adding an implementation of an ordered dictionary to >> standard python (e.g. as a library or built in type). It's inherently >> useful, and in this case it could be used by "make". > > Not to argue against adding an ordered dictionary somewhere to Python, > but for the moment I've been convinced that it's not worth the > complication to allow the dict in which the make-statement's block is > executed to be customized. The original use case had been > XML-building, and there are much nicer solutions using the > with-statement than there would be with the make-statement. If you > think you have a better (non-XML) use case though, I'm willing to > reconsider it.
I use that to define C/C++ structures to be generated in Python. I have to make some hacks to make that work with metaclasses, and I can't validate a copy-paste error that would produce two members of the same name (only the last one is kept). Please reconsider it. Regards, Nicolas _______________________________________________ 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
