Hi! 2012/12/10 Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org>
> 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. :-/ > I'm not sure about "relying" cause currently Python supports this feature only with OrderedDict object. So it's common for python developers do not rely on inserting ordering when using generic dict. > > 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/kachayev%40gmail.com > -- Kind regards, Alexey S. Kachayev, CTO at Kitapps Inc. ---------- http://codemehanika.org Skype: kachayev Tel: +380-996692092
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