[Python-Dev] Proposal: add odict to collections (original) (raw)

BJörn Lindqvist bjourne at gmail.com
Sun Jun 15 06:37:11 CEST 2008


On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Armin Ronacher <armin.ronacher at active-4.com> wrote:

Some reasons why ordered dicts are a useful feature:

And for metaclasses or for LRU caches or for removing duplicates in a list while maintaining order. I think that the name ordereddict would be more readable though, and match the existing defaultdict class in the collections module.

-- mvh Björn



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