[Antoine Pitrou]
You seem to imply that it is more important for __eq__ to work intuitively between a non-OrderedDict and an OrderedDict, than it is to work intuitively between two OrderedDicts.
Yes. When Armin and I worked through this, it became clear that he had multiple use cases where ordered dicts needed to be used in places that had been originally designed to expect regular dicts. That was also the reason for subclassing dict. Otherwise, we would have just made a standalone class that defined all the mapping methods. I don't think we going to convince you and that's okay. We don't have to agree on every design decision. There were some reasons for either approach and we picked the one that best fit Armin's use cases, that was simplest, that introduced the fewest special rules, and did not create a Liskov violation. The choice was clearly documented and an alternative was provided for people that needed it. Outside of your differing judgment on the __eq__ method, are you basically happy with the ordered dict PEP? Raymond _______________________________________________ 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
