Inconsistency between dict() and collections.OrderedDict() methods.

[Ben Finney]

Erik <python at lucidity.plus.com> writes:

> On 29/04/17 23:40, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> > For creating your own class that acts like a dict, you should derive
> > from collections.abc.MutableMapping, which only requires
> > implementing __getitem__, __setitem__, __delitem__, __iter__, and
> > __len__.
>
> Or, I could derive from collections.OrderedDict and just implement the
> two methods that I actually want to change the behavior of (did you
> read the rest of my post?) ;)

Did you read Ned's? :-)

You say that there are only two methods you want to change the behaviour
of; but as you have found, those two methods are not the only ones you
need to implement, in order to get the changed behaviour.

> That's one of the points I'm trying to make - why is it harder than it
> needs to be to do something this simple?

The “needs” have already been expressed, by yourself and Ned: the type
needs to provide fast performance. One cost of that, with the current
implementation, is that you need to implement the MutableMapping
protocol if you want a custom class.

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Ben Finney