Thanks for the post, Its become a part time job keeping up with updates. jim-on-linux
http://www.inqvista.com On Wednesday 29 November 2006 09:41, Fuzzyman wrote: > After a break of almost a year there has been > an update to `odict the Ordered Dictionary > <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html> >`_. > > The latest version is 0.2.2, with changes > implemented by Nicola Larosa. > > Despite over 700 downloads since May (plus 1300 > as part of `pythonutils > <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/pythonutils >.html>`_) there have been no bug reports, only > improvements [#]_. {sm;:-)} > > * `Quick Download > <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cgi-bin/voidspace/ >downman.py?file=odict.py>`_ > > What is odict? > ========== > > **odict** is a pure Python implementation of an > ordered dictionary. It keeps keys in insertion > order and allows you to change the order. > Methods (including iteration) that would return > members in an arbitrary order are now ordered. > > There is also the `SequenceOrderedDict > <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html# >sequenceordereddict>`_ that behaves like a > sequence as well as a dictionary. It allows > slicing and the keys, values and items methods > are special sequence objects (which are also > callable and so behave as methods too). > > What's New ? > ========== > > Code > ------- > > Removed the TODO and CHANGELOG sections in the > tail docstring (they are in the docs anyway). > > Disabled warnings during tests. > > Explicitly disabled tests execution on Python > v.2.2 . In addition to the slicing tests, other > ones are failing. > > Removed code duplication between the > ``__init__`` and the ``update`` methods. > > Misc. cleanup. > > Also, based on code from `Tim Wegener`_: > > - added the ``rename`` method; > - removed a ``has_key`` usage in the > ``__setitem__`` method. > > > Documentation > ---------------------- > > Moved the ISSUES chapter from code's tail > docstring to here. > > Moved up the `Creating an Ordered Dictionary > <http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html# >creating-an-ordered-dictionary>`_ chapter. > > Added prompts to the code examples and removed > the superfluous print statements (sometimes > they were there, sometimes they were not). > > Misc. cleanup. > > .. [#] So either no-one is using it, or it's > really good... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list