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

[MRAB]

On 2016-09-13 07:57, Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev wrote:
> On 12/09/2016 23:25, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
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>> The problem is... I don't know how to express this as an API. Which
>> sinks my whole though process and tables the idea.
>>
>
> "tables the idea"  has the US meaning of close it down, not the UK
> meaning of open it up? :)
>
Indeed. The US usage differs from the rest of the English-speaking world.

A better phrase would've been "shelves the idea". There's even a module 
in Python called "shelve", which makes it Pythonic. :-)