On Jan 25, 5:27 pm, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keyword arguments are normally treaded as "order independent". > Why do you think you need to find the order? What problem do > you wish to solve? > > -Larry
On Jan 25, 7:39 pm, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The question remains, what use is there for this? my goal is to implement a kind of named tuple. idealy, it should behave like this: p = Point(x=12, y=13) print p.x, p.y but what requires to keep track of the order is the unpacking: x, y = p i can't figure out how to produce an iterable that returns the values in the right order. relying on a "natural" order of the key names is not possible: x, and y are alphabetically sorted but the following example should also work: size = Point(width=23, height=45) w, h = size if you have any suggestion to implement such a thing... thank you renaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
