As far as I can see, people tend to agree that this is useful. So, unless someone steps up to oppose this, I&#39;ll file a feature request to the Python bug tracker.<br><br>Will propose an implementation based on ordered dict (that will be in 2.7/3.1 anyway).<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Joel Bender <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jjb5@cornell.edu">jjb5@cornell.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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It&#39;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.<br>
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Ordered dict then :-)<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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