[Python-Dev] Proposal: add odict to collections

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:39:05 pm Armin Ronacher wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve <at> pearwood.info> writes:
> > Conceptually, I would expect the following behaviour:
> > >>> od = odict()
> > >>> od[1] = 'spam'  # insert a new key
> > >>> od[2] = 'parrot'  # insert a new key
> > >>> od[1] = 'ham'  # modify existing key
> > >>> od.items()
> >
> > [(1, 'ham'), (2, 'parrot')]
>
> That behavior is different to any ordered-dict implementation
> out there ;-)

I beg to differ. It's the same behaviour as in this implementation:

http://dev.pocoo.org/hg/sandbox/raw-file/tip/odict.py

which I understand was written by you.



-- 
Steven