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

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Mon Jun 13 20:05:06 EDT 2016

On 2016-06-13 17:34, Ethan Furman wrote:

On 06/10/2016 02:13 PM, Franklin? Lee wrote:

P.S.: If anyone is missing the relevance, Raymond Hettinger's compact dicts are inherently ordered until a delitem happens.[1] That could be "good enough" for many purposes, including kwargs and class definition. It would be great for kwargs, but not for class definition: del's can happen there, so we need PEP 520 with OrderedDict so the definition order is not lost when an item is deleted during class creation. The order can be lost when an item is deleted because it moves the last item into the 'hole' left by the deleted item.

This could be avoided by expanding the items to include the index of the 'previous' and 'next' item, so that they could be handled like a doubly-linked list.

The disadvantage would be that it would use more memory.

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