On Sep 29, 4:23 pm, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Another example would be if you had a library which serialised a dictionary > to xml. There is nothing wrong with the library if it doesn't care about > order, but if you have some other reason why you want the xml to be stable > (e.g. because you store it in a version control system and want to compare > revisions) then a sorteddict would allow you to impose that behaviour on > the library from outside. > > Contrary to my earlier insistence that sorteddict is only really useful if > you can have a key parameter, both of these examples simply want an > arbitrary but defined order of iteration for dictionary keys. A much > simpler sorteddict that has been discussed earlier would be sufficient.
In fact, a dictionary that maintains insertion order would work in this case too. -- bjorn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
