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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Jun 15 10:03:02 CEST 2008

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

I don't favor one over the other. Am just pointing-out that the proposal is a little more complex than simply wishing for an ordered verion of a dictionary and expecting that that wish is self-defining in a way the matches everyone's intuition, use cases, and expectations.

If you have an odict with first-insertion ordering, it's fairly trivial to convert it to a dictionary with last-insertion ordering:

class odictlastinsertion(odict): def setitem(self, k, v): self.pop(k, None) self[k] = v

As you note, going the other way would be rather difficult, suggesting that the version ordered by the first key insertion is the more fundamental structure.

A PEP would definitely be needed to thrash out those kind of issues and decisions though

Cheers, Nick.

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