Sorry to pipe in so late, but this is actually the default behaviour of my C implementation (which I call KIO (Key Insertion Order), there is an option to change this to KVIO (Key (or) Value Insertion Order), which moves the pair to the end.
Anthon Armin Ronacher wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve <at> pearwood.info> writes: > >> Conceptually, I would expect the following behaviour: >> >>>>> od = odict() >>>>> od[1] = 'spam' # insert a new key >>>>> od[2] = 'parrot' # insert a new key >>>>> od[1] = 'ham' # modify existing key >>>>> od.items() >> [(1, 'ham'), (2, 'parrot')] > That behavior is different to any ordered-dict implementation > out there ;-) > > Regards, > Armin > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/anthon%40mnt.org > > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com