On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:01:04AM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > The recent proposal was primarily about guaranteeing the insertion order of > > dict literals. > > > > If further guarantees are proposed, perhaps it would be a good idea to > > open a new thread and state what exactly is being proposed. > > "Insertion ordered until the first key removal" is the only guarantee > that's being proposed. > > OrderedDict just comes into the discussion because reaching for its > stronger guarantees is currently the only way to obtain that guarantee > in a formally implementation-independent and future-proof way.
Ok good, I was primarily worried about collections.UnorderedDict coming up and users thinking that OrderedDict could be replaced entirely by dict(). Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
