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Tue Nov 7 04:39:50 EST 2017 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-November/150332.html

On 07/11/17 04:05, David Mertz wrote:
> I strongly opposed adding an ordered guarantee to regular dicts. If the 
> implementation happens to keep that, great. Maybe OrderedDict can be 
> rewritten to use the dict implementation. But the evidence that all 
> implementations will always be fine with this restraint feels poor, and 
> we have a perfectly good explicit OrderedDict for those who want that.
> 
>
If there is an ordered guarantee for regular dicts but not for dict 
literals, which is the subject of this thread, then haven't we got a 
recipe for the kind of confusion that will lead to the number of 
questions from newbies going off of the Richter scale?

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