[Python-Dev] Ordering keyword dicts

[fwierzbicki at gmail.com]

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> Or in other words, if dicts are to be ordered, let's make it an explicit
> language feature that we can measure compliance against.
Guaranteeing a dict order would be tough on Jython - today it's nice
that we can just have a thin wrapper around ConcurrentHashMap. In a
world with hard ordering guarantees I think we'd need to write our own
from scratch.

-Frank