New submission from Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com>:
types.SimpleNamespace was added in 3.3 (for use in sys.implementation; see PEP 421), which predates the change to preserving insertion order in dict. At the time we chose to sort the attributes in the repr, both for ease of reading and for a consistent output. The question is, should SimpleNamespace stay as it is (sorted repr) or should it show the order in which attributes were added? On the one hand, alphabetical order can be useful since it makes it easier for readers to find attributes, especially when there are many. However, for other cases it is helpful for the repr to show the order in which attributes were added. FWIW, I favor changing the ordering in the repr to insertion-order. Either is relatively trivial to get after the fact (whether "sorted(vars(ns))" or "list(vars(ns))"), so I don't think any folks that benefit from alphabetical order will be seriously impacted. ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 358553 nosy: eric.snow priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: types.SimpleNamespace should preserve attribute ordering (?) type: enhancement versions: Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39075> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
