replacing __dict__ with an OrderedDict

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.4603.1326211045.27778.python-list at python.org>,
 Lie Ryan <lie.1296 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> All serious database has rollback feature when they're available to
> >> quickly revert database state in the setUp/cleanUp phase.
> >
> > I guess MongoDB is not a serious database?
> 
> I guess there are always those oddball cases, but if you choose MongoDB 
> then you already know the consequences that it couldn't be as easily 
> unit-tested. And in any case, it is generally a bad idea to unittest 
> with a database that contains 100 million items, that's for performance 
> testing. So your point is?

My point is that in the real world, what is practical and efficient and 
sound business is not always what is theoretically correct.