[Python-Dev] Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and gets a private version; and keywords become ordered (original) (raw)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 17:45:27 EDT 2016


On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 6:22 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

A nice "side effect" of compact dict is that the dictionary now preserves the insertion order. It means that keyword arguments can now be iterated by their creation order:

This is pretty sweet! Of course, there are going to be 1172 complaints from people who's doctests have been broken, same as when hash randomization came in, but personally, I don't care. Thank you for landing this!

ChrisA



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