[Python-ideas] Proposed addtion to urllib.parse in 3.1 (and urlparse in 2.7)

[Arnaud Delobelle]

On 27 Mar 2009, at 19:29, Joel Bender wrote:

>> It's also possible that the order matters. I think an iterable of  
>> tuples (such as returned by dict.items(), but any iterable will do)  
>> would be an okay interface.
>
> Ordered dict then :-)

Why not use the same signature as dict.update()?

update(...)
     D.update(E, **F) -> None.  Update D from E and F: for k in E:  
D[k] = E[k]
     (if E has keys else: for (k, v) in E: D[k] = v) then: for k in F:  
D[k] = F[k]

-- 
Arnaud