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

[Shane Green]

I suppose you could support some subset of slice/index operations, with some serious limitations…  



On 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>
>> 
>> -eric
> 
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