On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > The main use case seems to be the OrderedDict constructor itself. > Otherwise, I can't think of any situation where I would've wanted it.
I've had a couple related to populating other mappings where order matters, at least from a predictability and readability perspective, even if it's not strictly required from a standards compliance point of view (think writing XML attributes, etc). I quite liked the idea of a simple flag attribute on function objects that the interpreter checked, with a decorator in functools (or even the builtins) to set it. It's not a particularly elegant solution, but it would get the job done with minimal performance impact on existing functions. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
