Why are there no ordered dictionaries?

bonono at gmail.com bonono at gmail.com
Wed Nov 23 09:12:11 CET 2005

Steve Holden wrote:
> Perhaps now the answer top your question is more obvious: there is by no
> means universal agreement on what an "ordered dictionary" should do.
> Given the ease with which Python allows you to implement your chosen
> functionality it would be presumptuous of the core developers to favour
> any one of the several reasonable alternatives that might be chosen.
It seems to be though as "ordered dictionary" are slowly to be confined
to only "ordered on order of change to the dictionary".

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