On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Raymond Hettinger < raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Dec 15, 2017, at 7:53 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > > > Make it so. "Dict keeps insertion order" is the ruling. Thanks! > > Thank you. That is wonderful news :-) > > Would it be reasonable to replace some of the OrderedDict() uses in the > standard library with dict()? For example, have namedtuples's _asdict() go > back to returning a plain dict as it did in its original incarnation. Also, > it looks like argparse could save an import by using a regular dict. > If it's documented as OrderedDict that would be backwards incompatible, since that has additional methods. Even if not documented it's likely to break some code. So, I'm not sure about this (though I agree with the sentiment that OrderedDict is much less important now). -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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