On 2/8/2012 2:18 PM, Mark Shannon wrote:
A pretty clear draft PEP.
Changes to repr() output and iteration order:
For most cases, this will be unchanged.
However for some split-table dictionaries the iteration order will
change.
Neither of these cons should be a problem.
Modules which meddle with the internals of the dictionary
implementation are already broken and should be fixed to use the API.
So are modules that depend on set and dict iteration order and the
consequent representations.
The iteration order of dictionaries was never defined and has always been
arbitrary; it is different for Jython and PyPy.
I am pretty sure iteration order has changed between CPython versions in
the past (and that when it did, people got caught). The documentation
for doctest has section 25.2.3.6. Warnings. It starts with this very issue!
'''
doctest is serious about requiring exact matches in expected output. If
even a single character doesn’t match, the test fails. This will
probably surprise you a few times, as you learn exactly what Python does
and doesn’t guarantee about output. For example, when printing a dict,
Python doesn’t guarantee that the key-value pairs will be printed in any
particular order, so a test like
>>> foo()
{"Hermione": "hippogryph", "Harry": "broomstick"}
is vulnerable! One workaround is to do
>>> foo() == {"Hermione": "hippogryph", "Harry": "broomstick"}
True
instead. Another is to do
>>> d = sorted(foo().items())
>>> d
[('Harry', 'broomstick'), ('Hermione', 'hippogryph')]
'''
(Object addresses and full-precision float representations are also
discussed.)
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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