Ordered dict by default

bearophileHUGS at lycos.com bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
Thu Feb 5 13:10:42 EST 2009


Bryan Olson:
> A few bits fuzzy. Is the following True or False if dict is insert-ordered?
>     dict(a=6, b=7) == dict(b=7, a=6)

In my odict implementation I have disallowed that syntax because if
you want to define a mydict(**kwds) function that allows a syntax
like:

mydict(a=6, b=7)

it takes a dict as argument, such dict is currently not ordered. If
built-in dicts become ordered, then that dict too may become
ordered :-)

Anyway, maybe it's good to ignore the inserting order of items when
you look for odict equality.

Bye,
bearophile



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