[Python-Dev] Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and gets a private version; and keywords become ordered (original) (raw)
Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 13:28:10 EDT 2016
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2016-09-09 10:17 GMT-07:00 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
- keyword args are ordered - the namespace passed to a metaclass is ordered by definition order - ditto for the class dict
Maybe we should define exactly "ordered" somewhere the language reference: https://docs.python.org/dev/reference/index.html
I expect:
- a mapping: mapping ABC, https://docs.python.org/dev/library/collections.abc.html#collections-abstract-base-classes
- ordered by definition order
- no more
I mean: OrderedDict has extra methods, reversed() and move_to_end(). Users should not rely on them.
Victor
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