On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 at 10:28 Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2016-09-09 10:17 GMT-07:00 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>: > > - keyword args are ordered > > - the namespace passed to a metaclass is ordered by definition order > > - ditto for the class __dict__ > > Maybe we should define exactly "ordered" somewhere the language reference: > https://docs.python.org/dev/reference/index.html > > I expect: > > * a mapping: mapping ABC, > > https://docs.python.org/dev/library/collections.abc.html#collections-abstract-base-classes > * ordered by definition order > * no more > > I mean: OrderedDict has extra methods, __reversed__() and > move_to_end(). Users should not rely on them. > Adding "ordered mapping" to the glossary and linking to the term from the language spec should cover that. Maybe Eric can add it since he made the spec updates earlier?
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