Le Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:40:30 +0100, Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org> a écrit : > Hi Raymond, > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Raymond Hettinger > <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Instead, the data should be organized as follows: > > > > indices = [None, 1, None, None, None, 0, None, 2] > > entries = [[-9092791511155847987, 'timmy', 'red'], > > [-8522787127447073495, 'barry', 'green'], > > [-6480567542315338377, 'guido', 'blue']] > > As a side note, your suggestion also enables order-preserving > dictionaries: iter() would automatically yield items in the order they > were inserted, as long as there was no deletion. People will > immediately start relying on this "feature"... and be confused by the > behavior of deletion. :-/
If that's really an issue, we can deliberately scramble the iteration order a bit :-) (of course it might negatively impact HW prefetching) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
