ordereddict 0.2

[Anthon van der Neut]

I am pleased to announce the first public version the ordereddict module.

 From the blurb on ordereddict's home-page:

This is an implementation of an ordered dictionary with Key Insertion 
Order: updates of values do not affect the position of the key.

It implementation is directly derived from dictobject.c and its speed is 
5-10% slower than dict() and 5-9 times faster than Larosa/Foord 
excellent pure Python implemention.

This module has been tested under:
    Ubuntu 7.04, gcc : Python 2.5.1
    Ubuntu 7.04, gcc : Python 2.4.4
    Ubuntu 6.06, gcc : Python 2.5.1
    Windows XP, Visual Studio 2003: Python 2.5.1  (see below)

ordereddict's home on the web is at
http://www.xs4all.nl/~anthon/Python/ordereddict
there you also find the links where the source can be downloaded.

The download includes relatively complete tests for all of ordereddict's 
  functionality (all of dict() plus for now: .index(), .reverse(), 
.insert())

I hope this is useful and appreciate any feedback

Anthon van der Neut

--
Windows specific compilation problem:
In order for things to link under Visual Studio 2003, I had to
#ifdef out the call _PyObject_GC_TRACK. I am not sure why this caused
a problem and had hoped that distutils would take care of these kind
of linker issues. Until this is resolved, or confirmed as a non-issue
please do not use this code in anything running for a longer period of
time and relying on garbagecollection to operate correctly.