[Python-Dev] PEP 372 -- Adding an ordered directory to collections ready for pronouncement

[Benjamin Peterson]

2009/3/1 Armin Ronacher <armin.ronacher at active-4.com>:
> Hi everybody,
>
> PEP 372 was modified so that it provides a simpler API (only the dict API
> to be exact) and it was decided to start with a Python-only implementation
> and replace it with a C version later if necessary.
>
> Annotated changes from earlier versions of the PEP:
>
> -   the extra API for ordered dict was dropped to keep the interface
>    simple and clean.  Future versions can still be expanded but it's
>    impossible to drop features later on.
>
> -   To keep the implementation simple 3.1 / 2.7 will ship with a
>    Python-only version of the class.  It can still be rewritten in
>    C if it turns out to be too slow or thread safety is required.
>
> The corresponding issue in the tracker: http://bugs.python.org/issue5397
> Link to the PEP: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0372/
>
> Anything else that should be done?

Have you considered naming? I would think that "odict" or
"ordereddict" would be more consistent with other collections names
especially "defaultdict".



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Regards,
Benjamin