[Python-ideas] Ordered storage of keyword arguments

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Oct 29 00:03:45 CEST 2010


Chris Rose wrote:
> I'd like to resurrect a discussion that went on a little over a year
> ago [1] started by Michael Foord suggesting that it'd be nice if
> keyword arguments' storage was implemented as an ordered dict as
> opposed to the current unordered form.

What's the use case for this? One of the reasons that keyword
arguments are useful is that you don't have to care what order
you write them in!

-- 
Greg



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