Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:57 PM, André Malo <nd <at> perlig.de> wrote: > > I find this collection of cases pretty weak as an argument for implementing > > that in the stdlib. A lot of special purpose types would fit into such > > reasoning, but do you want to have all of them maintained here? > > No, but an ordered dict happens to be a *very* common thing to need, > for a variety of reasons. So I'm +0.5 on adding this to the > collections module. However someone needs to contribute working code. > It would also be useful to verify that it actually fulfills the needs > of some actual use case. Perhaps looking at how Django uses its > version would be helpful.
I compared multiple ordered dicts now (including Babel, Django and the C-implementation I mentioned earlier) and implemented a python version of the ordered dict as reference implementation: http://dev.pocoo.org/hg/sandbox/raw-file/tip/odict.py Regards, Armin _______________________________________________ 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
