Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) wrote:
Does anyone else think it would be worthwhile adding these to
collections, or should I just make a cookbook entry?
-0 for the addition to the collections module, -1 on the specific
name.
Java made a *big* mistake by putting "Hash" into the names of these
things. From the outside, it is primarily a Dictionary; only when
you look closer you see that this specific dictionary requires
hashable keys (as opposed to, say, the C++ std::map, which requires
sortable keys).
So consequently, the data type should be called OrderedDictionary,
and its cookbook recipe is
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/107747
Regards,
Martin
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