Why are there no ordered dictionaries?

[Mike Meyer]

Christoph Zwerschke <cito at online.de> writes:
> Ben Finney wrote:
>> Another possibility: ordered dictionaries are not needed when Python
>> 2.4 has the 'sorted' builtin.
> The 'sorted' function does not help in the case I have indicated,
> where "I do not want the keys to be sorted alphabetically, but
> according to some criteria which cannot be derived from the keys
> themselves."

And how would an ordered dictionary help in this case?

    <mike
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