Ben Finney wrote: > Without an example, it's hard to know what you want to do and whether > an ordered dictionary is the best way to do it.
I have indicated an example, discussed in more detail in another subthread. >> There are already enough competing implementations. > Have they been sufficiently shaken out to show a clearly superior > version? Is any version sufficiently beneficial to write a PEP for its > inclusion in the standard library? At least it shows I'm not the only one who thinks ordered dictionaries may be sometimes nice to have. >> I simply wanted to ask why it is not available in the standard lib, >> since I simply don't know >> - has it not been demanded loud enough? > Loud demands don't count for much. PEPs with popular working > implementations do. Sorry, I did not mean "loud enough" but "often enough". The same what you are calling "popular." >> - because nobody presented a satisfying implementation yet? > I'm not sure what you mean by "satisfying". You can take your own definition: "sufficiently shaken out", "working", "popular", and "succifiently beneficial" and "proven (to the BDFL's criteria)". > Another possibility: ordered dictionaries are not needed when Python > 2.4 has the 'sorted' builtin. The 'sorted' function does not help in the case I have indicated, where "I do not want the keys to be sorted alphabetically, but according to some criteria which cannot be derived from the keys themselves." -- Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
