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I am. I was just wondering if there was an in-progress effort I should be looking at, because I am interested in extensions to it.


P.S.: If anyone is missing the relevance, Raymond Hettinger's compact dicts are inherently ordered until a delitem happens.[1] That could be "good enough" for many purposes, including kwargs and class definition. If CPython implements efficient compact dicts, it would be easier to propose order-preserving (or initially-order-preserving) dicts in some places in the standard.

[1] Whether delitem preserves order depends on whether you want to allow gaps in your compact entry table. PyPy implemented compact dicts and chose(?) to make dicts ordered.

On Saturday, June 11, 2016, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Franklin? Lee

<leewangzhong+python@gmail.com> wrote:

> Eric, have you any work in progress on compact dicts?



Nope. I presume you are talking the proposal Raymond made a while back.



-eric