On Sep 29, 7:13 pm, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Right now I think there are probably three dict variants needed: sorteddict > (still waiting for a convincing use case), ordereddict (lots of use cases), > and this one: stabledict.
What's stabledict? I'm assuming that ordereddict is a mapping that maintains insertion order(?) The only other mapping type I use very frequently is a dict where the keys are limited to valid identifiers, and where attribute lookup (d.foo) is defined as key lookup (d['foo']). It makes lots of code easier to read (and write). In the Smalltalk collection hierarchy SortedCollection is a subclass of OrderedCollection, which implies to me that it'd be better to add an ordereddict first. -- bjorn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
