Raymond Hettinger added the comment: My only attraction to adding any of the rotate variants is that they provide functionality that can't be done efficiently by a user without access to the underlying data structure.
However, looking only at the API, the methods seem a bit awkward and a bit at odds with how people think of ordered dicts (rotate is not a method that comes to mind for my mental model). When I built the OD code, I looked at many existing implementations (in Python and other languages), and I don't recall seeing rotation in any of them. In the absence of strong use cases, I prefer to keep the API thin so that OD's remain easy to learn and remember. ---------- priority: normal -> low _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17100> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
