[Python-3000] How much should non-dict mappings behave like dict?

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Sep 12 20:10:51 CEST 2008


> Gerhard suggested that if predictable
> ordering was desired that "order by rowid" would be better.

I personally don't understand what predictability brings (using a disk backend
implies that you should minimize queries, so using keys() then values() is
inefficient compared to using items() anyway), but this will be my last comment
on the issue as well :)

Regards

Antoine.




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