[Python-ideas] Add orderedset as set(iterable, *, ordered=False) and similarly for frozenset.

Jim Baker jim.baker at python.org
Sun Feb 8 05:02:37 CET 2015


Interesting. It's more than a couple of lines of code to change for Jython
(I tried), but now that we require Java 7, we should be able to implement
identical ordered behavior to PyPy for dict, __dict__, set, and frozenset
using ConcurrentSkipListMap instead of our current usage of
ConcurrentHashMap. (Other collections like defaultdict and weakref
collections use Google Guava's MapMaker, which doesn't have an ordered
option.)

I think this is a great idea from a user experience perspective.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2015-02-05 23:02 GMT+01:00 Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>:
>
>> Interesting -- somehow this message came through on the google group
>> mirror of  python-ideas only -- so replying to it barfed.
>>
>> He's my reply again, with the proper address this time:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hundreds of people want an orderedset (
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1653970/does-python-have-an-ordered-set)
>>> and yet the ordered sets that are in PyPI (oset, ordered-set) are
>>> incomplete.  Please consider adding an ordered set that has *all* of the
>>> same functionality as set.
>>>
>>
>>
>>> (If anyone wants to add a complete ordered set to PyPI that would also
>>> be very useful for me!)
>>>
>>
>> It seems like a good way to go here is to contribute to one of the
>> projects already on PyPI -- and once you like it, propose that it be added
>> to the standard library.
>>
>> And can you leverage the OrderedDict implementation already in the std
>> lib? Or maybe better, the new one in PyPy?
>>
>
> PyPy dicts and sets (the built-in ones) are already ordered by default.
>
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> Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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