[Python-ideas] Ordered storage of keyword arguments (original) (raw)

Carl M. Johnson cmjohnson.mailinglist at gmail.com
Fri Oct 29 08:32:37 CEST 2010

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

If you think of odict as an (efficient) associative list (order is primary function, random access via keys secondary), rather than an ordered mapping (random access via keys is primary function, order secondary) then the syntaxes

 ['a' : 1, 'b' : 2, 'c' : 3]    # create an odict (surely that has been suggested before!) and

Yup:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-June/004924.html

GvR says "-100" :-O

Archivally-yrs,

-- Carl

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