[Python-Dev] Ordering keyword dicts

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

On 19 May 2013 11:57, Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hm. Wouldn'tvevery call site be slowed down by checking for that flag?

Actually, when I was thinking on the subject I came to the same idea, of having
some functions marked differently so they would use a different call mechanism -
but them I wondered around having a different opcode for the ordered-dict calls.

Would that be feasible?

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> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
>> wrote:
>> > The main use case seems to be the OrderedDict constructor itself.
>> > Otherwise, I can't think of any situation where I would've wanted it.
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>> I've had a couple related to populating other mappings where order
>> matters, at least from a predictability and readability perspective,
>> even if it's not strictly required from a standards compliance point
>> of view (think writing XML attributes, etc).
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>> I quite liked the idea of a simple flag attribute on function objects
>> that the interpreter checked, with a decorator in functools (or even
>> the builtins) to set it. It's not a particularly elegant solution, but
>> it would get the job done with minimal performance impact on existing
>> functions.
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>> Cheers,
>> Nick.
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