Python 3.1 beta 1

[bearophileHUGS at lycos.com]

Terry Reedy:
bearophile:
> > Well, I'd like function call semantics pass-in keyword arguments to
> > use OrderedDicts then... :-)

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> It would require a sufficiently fast C implementation.

Right.
Such dict is usually small, so if people want it ordered, it may be
better to just use an array of name-value structs instead of a dict or
ordered dict. Iterating on a 10-pair array is fast on modern CPUs.

Bye,
bearophile