On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 08:38:19AM -0400, Ricky Teachey wrote: > Not a pro or con just an observation: since dictionaries are ordered now > people would also (somewhat reasonably, imo) want to be able to splice > them, too.
Dicts are not sequences. They might preserve insertion order, but that is not the same as being orderable, sortable, or being able to access keys or values by index. There is no reason why one cannot build an indexable dict that supports this functionality, but the trade-offs to allow slicing and indexing of such a dict would be different from the trade-offs desired for builtin dicts in Python. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/NQ2W3VI3Q2DQDDY25LCBY23LHRGCIMUO/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
