On 7 November 2017 at 21:47, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is it worth guaranteeing that will always "work" (as intended)? Not >> to me, but I do have code that relies on it now - > > > This is critically important -- no one looks at the language spec to > figure out how something works -- they try it, and if it works assume it > will continue to work. > > if dict order is preserved in cPython , people WILL count on it! > I won't, and if people do and their code break, they'll have only themselves to blame. Also, what proof do you have of that besides anecdotal evidence ? E
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