[Python-ideas] OrderedCounter and OrderedDefaultDict

[Sven R. Kunze]

On 17.10.2015 04:08, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote:
> Actually, forget all that; it's even simpler.
>
> At least in recent 3.x, the only thing wrong with inheriting from both 
> types, assuming you put OrderedDict first, is the __init__ signature. So:
>
>     class OrderedDefaultDict(OrderedDict, defaultdict):
>         def __init__(self, default_factory=None, *a, **kw):
>             OrderedDict.__init__(self, *a, **kw)
>             self.default_factory = default_factory

Not saying that inheritance is a bad thing but to me It seems to me that 
ordering and default values should be orthogonal aspects of the standard 
dict.

Just as Sandi described it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29MAL8pJImQ

Best,
Sven
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