Hi Raymond, On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Instead, the data should be organized as follows: > > indices = [None, 1, None, None, None, 0, None, 2] > entries = [[-9092791511155847987, 'timmy', 'red'], > [-8522787127447073495, 'barry', 'green'], > [-6480567542315338377, 'guido', 'blue']]
As a side note, your suggestion also enables order-preserving dictionaries: iter() would automatically yield items in the order they were inserted, as long as there was no deletion. People will immediately start relying on this "feature"... and be confused by the behavior of deletion. :-/ A bientôt, 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/archive%40mail-archive.com
