Steve Holden wrote: > Perhaps now the answer top your question is more obvious: there is by no > means universal agreement on what an "ordered dictionary" should do. > Given the ease with which Python allows you to implement your chosen > functionality it would be presumptuous of the core developers to favour > any one of the several reasonable alternatives that might be chosen. > It seems to be though as "ordered dictionary" are slowly to be confined to only "ordered on order of change to the dictionary".
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