Hi Steve and all,
Thanks!
Before we could even consider adding the sortedcontainers library to the standard library, we would need to hear from the maintainer(s) of the library that they agree to the move and would be able to continue maintaining the library under our release schedule and backwards compatibility guarantees.
Totally agree. And as others mentioned in this thread, I agree the use cases for Sorted Containers are weak to make it worthwhile to be added to stdlib. I was more thinking about the completeness of the stdlib when I was proposing, but I do agree there is a cost/benefit analysis need to be done and it is great to see all the responses. As other pointed out this is mainly useful to implement some kind of cache, but since we already have lru_cache a lower level sorted dict may not be needed.
Thanks for all the responses.
Best, Bob