Alan Isaac wrote: > "Carsten Haese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> I was simply pointing out all the ways in which you made it difficult for > the >> community to explain your problem. > > And without that community, I would still not have a clue. > Thanks to all! > >> Please feel free to suggest specific wording changes to make the > documentation >> more useful. > > I'm sure my first pass will be flawed, but here goes: > > http://docs.python.org/lib/typesmapping.html: > to footnote (3), add phrase "which may depend on the memory location of the > keys" to get: > > Keys and values are listed in an arbitrary order, > which may depend on the memory location of the keys. > This order is non-random, varies across Python implementations, > and depends on the dictionary's history of insertions and deletions. > > http://docs.python.org/lib/types-set.html: append a new sentence to 2nd > paragraph > > Iteration over a set returns elements in an arbitrary order, > which may depend on the memory location of the elements.
It's misleading. It only depends on the memory location of the elements if __hash__() is implemented as id() (the default). How about this? """Never rely on the order of dictionaries and sets.""" -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
