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Tue Sep 10 17:54:20 CEST 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-September/128530.html

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.

Whichever way is adopted, I think even if you say it's implementation 
specific, people will end up relying on it in their code.

Janzert

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