[Python-Dev] How to update namedtuple asdict() to use dict instead of OrderedDict

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 2:34 PM Raymond Hettinger
<raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now that regular dicts are ordered and compact, it makes more sense for the _asdict() method to create a regular dict (as it did in its early days) rather than an OrderedDict.  The regular dict is much smaller, much faster, and has a much cleaner looking repr.

How viable would it be to make OrderedDict smaller, faster, and give
it a cleaner looking repr?

-n

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