On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
Joel Bender wrote:
It's also possible that the order matters. I think an iterable of tuples (such as returned by dict.items(), but any iterable will do) would be an okay interface.
Ordered dict then :-)
But that, unlike iterable of tuples, would exclude repeated fields, as in Arnaud's example
Note that it's still not general enough as query fields can be repeated, e.g. http://foo.com/search/?q=spam&q=eggs
Repeated fields can be packed together in a tuple/list: add_query_params('http://foo.com', dict(q=('spam', 'eggs'))) To which one might reply that this would exclude non-consecutive repeated fields,e g. '?q=spam&foo=bar&q=eggs. To which I would reply that for this 0.01% of cases that require this (a) do it by hand as now or (b) use the same signature as dict() (plus the host in the beginning): add_query_params(host, mapping_or_iterable=None, **params) George