On 09/10/2013 11:54 AM, Janzert wrote: > On 9/10/2013 10:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> (also, I would intuitively expect the latest key to be held, not the >> first one, since that's what happens for values.) >> >> Regards >> >> Antoine. >> > > I intuitively expected, and I think most often would want, the first key > to be held. The reason being that I would except most often the initial > insertion to be the canonical form.
My stock ticker example (but from a real problem I had a few days ago) would want to have this example: I want the first key, because I'm pre-seeding the dict with a variety of keys that are of the canonical form. > Whichever way is adopted, I think even if you say it's implementation > specific, people will end up relying on it in their code. Agreed. Eric. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
