[Python-Dev] Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and gets a private version; and keywords become ordered

Tim Delaney timothy.c.delaney at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 01:33:21 EDT 2016


On 9 September 2016 at 07:45, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 6:22 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > A nice "side effect" of compact dict is that the dictionary now
> > preserves the insertion order. It means that keyword arguments can now
> > be iterated by their creation order:
> >
>
> This is pretty sweet! Of course, there are going to be 1172 complaints
> from people who's doctests have been broken, same as when hash
> randomization came in, but personally, I don't care. Thank you for
> landing this!
>

Are sets also ordered by default now? None of the PEPs appear to mention it.

Tim Delaney
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