Why are there no ordered dictionaries?

[Fuzzyman]

Carsten Haese wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:39:22 +0100, Christoph Zwerschke wrote
> > Carsten Haese schrieb:
> >
> > > Thus quoth the Zen of Python:
> > > "Explicit is better than implicit."
> > > "In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess."
> > >
> > > With those in mind, since an odict behaves mostly like a dictionary, []
> > > should always refer to keys. An odict implementation that wants to allow
> > > access by numeric index should provide explicitly named methods for that
> > > purpose.
> >
> > Exactly. But I don't think in this case such methods would be
> > needed. You easily get the i-th value in the ordered dict as
> > d.values()[i].
> >
> > -- Chris
>
> True enough, but unless the odict has its list of values on hand, you're
> asking the odict to build a list of all its values just so that you can get
> the i'th element. Having a method that does the equivalent of d[d.sequence[i]]
> would be cleaner and more efficient.
>

I'm going to add some of the sequence methods. I'm *not* going to allow
indexing, but I will allow slicing.

You can also do d[d.keys()[i]]

This provides two ways of fetching values by index, so I don't want to
add another.

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
> -Carsten