[Python-ideas] Ordered storage of keyword arguments

[Carl M. Johnson]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

> If you think of odict as an (efficient) associative list (order is
> primary function, random access via keys secondary), rather than an
> ordered mapping (random access via keys is primary function, order
> secondary) then the syntaxes
>
>    ['a' : 1, 'b' : 2, 'c' : 3]    # create an odict
>
> (surely that has been suggested before!) and

Yup:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2009-June/004924.html

GvR says "-100" :-O

Archivally-yrs,

-- Carl