[Python-ideas] Indicate if an iterable is ordered or not

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>>> What do you want to do with this knowledge?
>>
>> At this point, nothing. :)  I realized while writing the message that
>> my use case was not helped by knowing whether or not the iterable is
>> ordered.  I sent the message anyway because it does seem like there's
>> a gap--just not one that perhaps anyone cares about. <wink>

To the contrary, I say there is no gap and there is nothing to gain by
adding the proposed API.

[Sorry for the blank reply earlier.]

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)