[Python-Dev] Proposal: add odict to collections

[Nick Coghlan]

Armin Ronacher wrote:
> Armin Ronacher <armin.ronacher <at> active-4.com> writes:
> 
>> There are far more responses for that topic than I imagined so I would love
>> to write a PEP about that topic, incorporating the ideas/questions and
>> suggestions discussed here.
> 
> There is now a PEP for the ordered dict:
> 
>   - PEP: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0372/
>   - Thread on comp.lang.python:
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/577894

Another use case: in 2.6, RawConfigParser accepts a dict_type argument 
that allows an application to set the type of dictionary used 
internally. The motivation for this addition was expressly to allow 
users to provide an ordered dictionary [1].

Cheers,
Nick.

[1] http://bugs.python.org/issue1371075

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