* Armin Ronacher wrote:
> Some reasons why ordered dicts are a useful feature:
>
> - in XML/HTML processing it's often desired to keep the attributes of
> an tag ordered during processing. So that input ordering is the
> same as the output ordering.
>
> - Form data transmitted via HTTP is usually ordered by the position
> of the input/textarea/select field in the HTML document. That
> information is currently lost in most Python web applications /
> frameworks.
>
> - Eaiser transition of code from Ruby/PHP which have sorted
> associative arrays / hashmaps.
>
> - Having an ordered dict in the standard library would allow other
> libraries support them. For example a PHP serializer could return
> odicts rather then dicts which drops the ordering information.
> XML libraries such as etree could add support for it when creating
> elements or return attribute dicts.
I find this collection of cases pretty weak as an argument for implementing
that in the stdlib. A lot of special purpose types would fit into such
reasoning, but do you want to have all of them maintained here?
nd
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