[Python-Dev] Proposal: add odict to collections

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Jun 16 03:00:28 CEST 2008


Talin wrote:
> In some cases, the term is used to mean a 
> dictionary that remembers the order of insertions, and in other cases it 
> is used to mean a sorted dict,
> 
> I would be more in favor of the idea if we could come up with a less 
> ambiguous naming scheme.

Perhaps "indexed list" or maybe "keyed list" would be
a better term for the first variety.

And "sorted dict" seems like a good enough term for
the other one.

-- 
Greg


More information about the Python-Dev mailing list