2009/3/1 Armin Ronacher <armin.ronac...@active-4.com>: > Hi everybody, > > PEP 372 was modified so that it provides a simpler API (only the dict API > to be exact) and it was decided to start with a Python-only implementation > and replace it with a C version later if necessary. > > Annotated changes from earlier versions of the PEP: > > - the extra API for ordered dict was dropped to keep the interface > simple and clean. Future versions can still be expanded but it's > impossible to drop features later on. > > - To keep the implementation simple 3.1 / 2.7 will ship with a > Python-only version of the class. It can still be rewritten in > C if it turns out to be too slow or thread safety is required. > > The corresponding issue in the tracker: http://bugs.python.org/issue5397 > Link to the PEP: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0372/ > > Anything else that should be done?
Have you considered naming? I would think that "odict" or "ordereddict" would be more consistent with other collections names especially "defaultdict". -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
