On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 19:24, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> You can't insert a key in a specific position. If I have this dict:
>
> mydict = {'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'd': 4, 'e': 5}
>
> I can't insert 'b':2 between keys 'a' and 'c', except by creating a new
> dict.
>
Not sure about this. In C code, dicts are a hashtable and an array of
items. In theory, nothing prevents you from inserting a new key in a
specific position of the key array instead of at the end.
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