On 14 Sep, 20:25, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Summerfield wrote: [snip] > May I also make one more suggestion, to call it a "sort_ordered_dict" > (or "sortordereddict", or even better a "sorteddict"--where the "ed" > comes from "ordered")? Its hard for me to move past the established > definition of "order", as we think of tuples being ordered--as in the > first sentence ofhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple--tosomething that > is preserving an order according to a comparison. The distinction is so > firmly ingrained in my head that it took me a while to wake up to the > fact that you were describing something completely different than an > ordered dictionary (e.g.http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html) > even though you were being very unambiguous with your description. > > And I also think the ability to drop it in for a built-in dict is very > valuable. > > James
It seems that the correct Python terminology for this is indeed sorteddict (ordered by key), with ordereddict meaning (in insertion order). I guess I'll have to rename my module (although unfortunately, my book has just gone into production and I have a (simpler) example of what I considered to be an ordered dict, so I will be adding to the terminology confusion). That notwithstanding, given that it is a sorteddict, how is the API? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
