[Python-Dev] multidict API

[Ian Bicking]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> [Ian Bicking]
> 
>>The question then is what the API should look like for such an object -- 
>>an ordered, multi-value dictionary.
> 
> 
> May I suggest that multidict begin it's life as a cookbook recipe so that its 
> API can mature.

There's already quite a few recipes out there.  But I should probably 
collect them as well.

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/107747
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/438823
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/173072
http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/odict.py
http://www.astro.washington.edu/owen/ROPython.html
http://home.arcor.de/wolfgang.grafen/Python/Modules/Modules.html
email.Message.Message
http://cvs.eby-sarna.com/wsgiref/src/wsgiref/headers.py?view=markup

Well, there's a few, mostly ordered, some multivalue.  A comparison 
would be helpful, but maybe a little later.  odict is probably the most 
filled-out, though it is probably more listish than I really would like.

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