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

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Tue Sep 13 13:52:34 EDT 2016


On 2016-09-13 07:57, Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev wrote:

On 12/09/2016 23:25, Gregory P. Smith wrote: [snip]

The problem is... I don't know how to express this as an API. Which sinks my whole though process and tables the idea.

"tables the idea" has the US meaning of close it down, not the UK meaning of open it up? :) Indeed. The US usage differs from the rest of the English-speaking world.

A better phrase would've been "shelves the idea". There's even a module in Python called "shelve", which makes it Pythonic. :-)



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