[Python-Dev] The current dict is not an "OrderedDict"

[Nick Coghlan]

On 8 November 2017 at 07:19, Evpok Padding <evpok.padding at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 November 2017 at 21:47, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>> if dict order is preserved in cPython , people WILL count on it!
>
> I won't, and if people do and their code break, they'll have only themselves
> to blame.
> Also, what proof do you have of that besides anecdotal evidence ?

~27 calendar years of anecdotal evidence across a multitude of CPython
API behaviours (as well as API usage in other projects).

Other implementation developers don't say "CPython's runtime behaviour
is the real Python specification" for the fun of it - they say it
because "my code works on CPython, but it does the wrong thing on your
interpreter, so I'm going to stick with CPython" is a real barrier to
end user adoption, no matter what the language specification says.
Blaming users for not writing portable code doesn't achieve anything
in that scenario - it just puts an extra road block in the way of
those users trying out the alternative interpreter implementation.

Cheers,
Nick.

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