Why are there no ordered dictionaries?

[Fuzzyman]

Bengt Richter wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:00:29 +0100, Christoph Zwerschke <cito at online.de> wrote:
>
[snip..]
> I think also that d1==d2 should effectively be implemented as d1[:] == d2[:] -- i.e, compare
> the item lists to implement comparisons.
>

IIUC then the odict effectively already does this.

All the best,

Fuzzyman
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> Detailed requirements are most of the work ;-)
> I'm thinking now to try subclassing list in a constrained way instead of dict, but well see.
> 
> Regards,
> Bengt Richter