Hi there python-ideas!<div><br></div><div>Does it bother anyone else that it&#39;s so cumbersome to instantiate an OrderedDict with ordered data?</div><div><br></div><div><div>    &gt;&gt;&gt; from collections import OrderedDict</div>
<div>    &gt;&gt;&gt; OrderedDict(b=1,a=2)</div><div>    OrderedDict([(&#39;a&#39;, 2), (&#39;b&#39;, 1)])          # Order lost. Boooo.</div><div>    &gt;&gt;&gt; OrderedDict([(&#39;b&#39;,1),(&#39;a&#39;,2)])</div><div>
    OrderedDict([(&#39;b&#39;, 1), (&#39;a&#39;, 2)])</div></div><div><br></div><div>Obviously, OrderedDict&#39;s __init__ method (like all other functions) never gets a chance to see the kwargs dict in the order it was specified.  It&#39;s usually faked by accepting the sequence of (key, val) tuples, as above.  I personally think it would be nice to be able to ask the interpreter to keep track of the order of the arguments to my function, something like:</div>
<div><br></div><div>    def sweet_function_name(*args, **kwargs, ***an_odict_of_kwargs):</div><div>        pass</div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;m not married to the syntax.  What do you think about the idea?</div>