Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> added the comment:

ISTM that the table order doesn't need to match because the links take you 
directly to the section of interest.  They make it so that you don't need to 
know the order of sections below.  Currently, they have a "logical" grouping 
with the two sequence-like objects side-by-side, the four dict or dict-like 
subclasses side-by-side, and the other "User" classes side-by-side.

The order of the sections below is in alpha order (with the minor exception of 
deque and defaultdict being swapped).  This is also reasonable because a person 
would likely be scanning the Table of Contents looking for the class or 
function by its name.

This is really no different than a lending library having a title catalog and a 
subject catalog with the same information arranged in two different ways.  Both 
ways have value.

Thank you for the suggestion, but the existing ordering was intentional and is 
useful.  Possibly, we could swap the *deque* and *defaultdict* sections, but 
the benefit is very minor and likely isn't worth the churn.

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resolution:  -> rejected
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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