Alex Martelli wrote: > 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. >
If you slice an ordered dictionary, I assume you would expect to get an ordered dictionary back ? Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml > > Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
