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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> rdmurray at bitdance.com wrote:
>
>> I actually like StableDict best.  When I hear that I think, "ah, the
>> key order is stable in the face of insertions, unlike a regular dict".
>
> But it still doesn't convey what the ordering actually *is*.

Please, stick with OrderedDict. That's the name used historically by
most people who independently reinvented this functionality.

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