[Python-Dev] Guarantee ordered dict literals in v3.7? (original) (raw)

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Tue Dec 19 03:27:33 EST 2017

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:38 PM, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:

On 18Dec2017 2309, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

[A LOT OF THINGS I AGREE WITH] I agree completely with Steven's reasoning here, and it bothers me that what is an irrelevant change to many users (dict becoming ordered) seems to imply that all users of dict have to be updated.

Can we all take a deep breath and lay off the hyperbole? The only point under discussion in this subthread is whether pprint -- our module for producing nicely-formatted-reprs -- should continue to sort keys, or should continue to provide an accurate repr. There are reasonable arguments for both positions, but no-one's suggesting anything in the same solar system as "all users of dict have to be updated".

Am I missing some underlying nerve that this is hitting for some reason?

-n

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