Hi, folks.
TLDR, was the final decision made already?
If "dict keeps insertion order" is not language spec and we
continue to recommend people to use OrderedDict to keep
order, I want to optimize OrderedDict for creation/iteration
and memory usage. (See https://bugs.python.org/issue31265#msg301942 )
If dict ordering is language spec, I'll stop the effort and
use remaining time to another optimizations.
My thought is, +1 to make it language spec.
* PHP (PHP 7.2 interpreter is faster than Python) keeps insertion order.
So even we make it language spec, I think we have enough room
to optimize.
* It can make stop discussion like "Does X keeps insertion order?
It's language spec?", "What about Y? Z?". Everything on top of dict
keeps insertion order. It's simple to learn and explain.
Regards,
INADA Naoki
This sounds reasonable -- I think when we introduced this in 3.6 we were worried that other implementations (e.g. Jython) would have a problem with this, but AFAIK they've reported back that they can do this just fine. So let's just document this as a language guarantee.
On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Stefan Krah
wrote: Hello,
would it be possible to guarantee that dict literals are ordered in v3.7?
The issue is well-known and the workarounds are tedious, example:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2015-December/037423.html
If the feature is guaranteed now, people can rely on it around v3.9.
Stefan Krah
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