Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is already an update method of course. :-) > > Slicing an ordered dictionary is interesting - but how many people are > actually going to use it ? (What's your use case)
I detest and abhor almost-sequences which can't be sliced (I consider that a defect of collections.deque). If the ordered dictionary records by its sequencing the time order of key insertion, being able to ask for "the last 5 keys entered" or "the first 3 keys entered" seem to me to be perfectly natural use cases, and most naturally accomplished by slicing of course, d[-5:] and d[:3] respectively. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
