[Python-3000] Ordered mapping type for Python 3000? (original) (raw)

BJörn Lindqvist bjourne at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 10:51:28 CEST 2007

On 3/28/07, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:

"BJörn Lindqvist" <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote: > col = attrtuple(r = 255, g = 0, b = 128) > r, g, b = col That is handled reasonably well with Raymond's recipe (or variants thereof).

Well, no. NamedTuple('Color', 'r g b')(r = 255, g = 0, b = 128) is not at all the same thing.

> el = makeel('input', type = 'text', class = 'query')

XML elements are not ordering sensitive.

Except when you write them. If you want the output to be exactly you must have an order.

> Or interface easier with tabular, order-dependent data.

That is handled with the ordered dictionary and metaclass sytax PEP.

Yes. Making **kwargs orderable would merely be the syntactic support that would make ordered dictionaries a breeze to work with.

-- mvh Björn

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