Inconsistency between dict() and collections.OrderedDict() methods.
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sat Apr 29 20:31:23 EDT 2017
Erik <python at lucidity.plus.com> writes:
> On 29/04/17 23:40, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> > For creating your own class that acts like a dict, you should derive
> > from collections.abc.MutableMapping, which only requires
> > implementing __getitem__, __setitem__, __delitem__, __iter__, and
> > __len__.
>
> Or, I could derive from collections.OrderedDict and just implement the
> two methods that I actually want to change the behavior of (did you
> read the rest of my post?) ;)
Did you read Ned's? :-)
You say that there are only two methods you want to change the behaviour
of; but as you have found, those two methods are not the only ones you
need to implement, in order to get the changed behaviour.
> That's one of the points I'm trying to make - why is it harder than it
> needs to be to do something this simple?
The “needs” have already been expressed, by yourself and Ned: the type
needs to provide fast performance. One cost of that, with the current
implementation, is that you need to implement the MutableMapping
protocol if you want a custom class.
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