On 30/04/17 01:17, breamore...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 12:23:19 AM UTC+1, Erik wrote:
The other is that the documentation of collections.OrderedDict seems to
be lacking (it is talking in terms of being a "dict" subclass, but it
actually isn't one).
E.
Could have fooled me.
C:\python
Python 3.6.1 (v3.6.1:69c0db5, Mar 21 2017, 18:41:36) [MSC v.1900 64 bit
(AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
from collections import OrderedDict
o = OrderedDict()
isinstance(o, dict)
True
OK, so technically it is a subclass, I didn't notice that, but where
does the documentation explain all of the differences in behaviour? It
doesn't. It states "it's a subclass of dict that does <this> and <that>"
(by which I mean "order the keys") and it's not unreasonable to
therefore believe that's _all_ it does differently. If if it actually
does "<this>, <that>, <the other>, <something>, <foo>" (by which I mean
"order the keys and implement very different behavior for other methods
such as __init__ and __update__") then the documentation is lacking
(because it doesn't mention it). Isn't that what I said?
E.
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