[Edu-sig] confirming dict def behavior with gender diversity dict

[kirby urner]

I was playing with this somewhat dated and
not fully accepted key or legend the gender
diversity people sometimes use:

  . diversity_acronyms = {'G':'Gay',
'L':'Lesbian',
'T':'Trans',
'B':'Bi',
'Q':'Queer',
'Q':'Questioning',
'H':'Hetero',
'I':'Intersex',
'P':'Pan' }

  . diversity_acronyms.keys()
dict_keys(['Q', 'P', 'B', 'T', 'G', 'I', 'H', 'L'])

  . diversity_acronyms['Q']
'Questioning'

Yes, given it's a mapping we all know that there's
no special ordering of the keys or the items in
general i.e. QPBTGIHL is but one permutation.

But my question is regarding key unique-ness:
(we lost a Q) and the rules of precedence at
define time.

Do we always lose the *same* Q? i.e. in
defining the dict top to bottom (above and again
below), I mention a 2nd 'Q' after a first, so I'm
confirming it would always be the last of any
given key that survives to be in the dict final
dict.

Testing:

  . diversity_acronyms = {'G':'Gay',
'L':'Lesbian',
'T':'Trans',
'B':'Bi',
'Q':'Questioning',
'Q':'Queer',
'H':'Hetero',
'I':'Intersex',
'P':'Pan' }

  . diversity_acronyms['Q']
'Queer'

Right, I'm guessing this is in the docs somewhere.
I think I've answered my own question.

My question for diversity-sig would be: do folks
here think there'd be strong objections to replacing
'Q' for 'Queer' with 'P' for 'Pan' which is a relatively
new one, meant more as a rounding-out catch-all
I think?

But that's what 'Queer' used to mean originally:
"anything broader minded than boring straight"
(rough translation).  Queer was the parent class
with any narrowing to G, L, H, B considered
subclasses of a more generic API.

Given a dict needs a unique key per value, the
goal in replacing 'Queer' with 'Pan' as the base
class (and dict key) in some implementations, is
to more conform to Pythonic semantics (unique
key requirements) while preserving the gender
diversity spectrum already in the cards (this
acronym is not my invention, is well-known in
GLTBQ literature).

But this is edu-sig not diversity-sig and I'm
mainly just confirming that the order in which
keys in a dict are defined determines, in a
deterministic / predictable manner, which
value survives.

Kirby
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