On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 5:15 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > On 12/12/2017 09:30 AM, Erik Bray wrote: >> >> Another workaround that's so obvious I smacked myself on the head is >> that for many cases, particularly objects that have a small dict in >> their representation, is to simply change the __repr__ so that its >> dict is always displayed sorted. If the order doesn't matter anyways >> that it doesn't hurt to impose an order at least for the __repr__. I >> doubt there are many cases where this should have any performance >> impact either. >> > > It makes the user experience worse (i.e. slower) for the sole benefit of > a test suite used only non-interactively by developers. That's my slight > moral objection, but sometimes it may still be the best option.
In most cases here we're only talking about repr-ing small dicts. This has no user-visible impact. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
