Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes:
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 4:57 PM, André Malo <nd <at> perlig.de> wrote:
I find this collection of cases pretty weak as an argument for implementing that in the stdlib. A lot of special purpose types would fit into such reasoning, but do you want to have all of them maintained here?
No, but an ordered dict happens to be a *very* common thing to need, for a variety of reasons. So I'm +0.5 on adding this to the collections module. However someone needs to contribute working code. It would also be useful to verify that it actually fulfills the needs of some actual use case. Perhaps looking at how Django uses its version would be helpful.
I compared multiple ordered dicts now (including Babel, Django and the C-implementation I mentioned earlier) and implemented a python version of the ordered dict as reference implementation: http://dev.pocoo.org/hg/sandbox/raw-file/tip/odict.py Regards, Armin