[python-uk] memoize & ordering of kwargs.items()

[Matt Hamilton]

On 11 Nov 2011, at 12:54, Alexander Harrowell wrote:

> This is surely inherent in the fact that python dictionaries are not deterministically ordered. The dox don't say that you will always get key-val pairs back in *different* orders - just that you cannot rely on them being in the *same* order. Equally, you can't assume that they *won't*.

In CPython they *are* deterministically ordered though through their implementation. The API just states that for the purposes of the API you cannot rely on the order of the keys/values returned as that is a side effect of the implementation.

-Matt

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