[issue5397] PEP 372: OrderedDict

[Forest Wilkinson]

Forest Wilkinson <forest at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

> Shouldn't popitem() allow the caller to choose which end from
> which to pop?

Thinking it through a bit more, and LRU cache would actually need to
access the oldest item without necessarily removing it.  Besides,
popitem() should probably retain the signature of dict.popitem().  I
think I'll take this matter to python-dev.

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