[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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".
While I'm only +0 for a standard odict I'm wondering that discussing this topic leads to the auctoritative conclusion that it is unsolvable, we have to accept infinite diversity etc. where people like me seeing a classification immediately ( mathematical education? ) . Of course this matter is trivial but we already know about monster-threads revolving around decorator syntax ( including hurt souls and semi-scientific papers ) and abandoning the print statement in Python 3.0. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
