Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 05Feb2009 01:47, bearophileh...@lycos.com <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote: | [...] But even if the average performance becomes a | little worse I think making the default Python dict as ordered is a | positive change for Python too, because built-ins are meant to be as | flexible as possible, even if they aren't the fastest ones or the less | memory hungry ones
[snip]
I would much rather keep dictionaries as performant as possible, as a bare mapping, and add an odict for when order matters.
+1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
