[Python-Dev] PEP 468 (original) (raw)

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 12:54:32 EDT 2016

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Émanuel Barry <vgr255 at live.ca> wrote:

As stated by Guido (and pointed out in the PEP):

Making **kwds ordered is still open, but requires careful design and implementation to avoid slowing down function calls that don't benefit. The PEP has not been updated in a while, though. Python 3.5 has been released, and with it a C implementation of OrderedDict. Eric, are you still interested in this?

Yes, but wasn't planning on dusting it off yet (i.e. in time for 3.6). I'm certainly not opposed to someone picking up the banner.

IIRC that PEP was one of the motivating use cases for implementing OrderedDict in C.

Correct, though I'm not sure OrderedDict needs to be involved any more.

Maybe it's time for a second round of discussion on Python-ideas?

Fine with me, though I won't have a lot of time in the 3.6 timeframe to handle a high-volume discussion or push through an implementation.

-eric

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