On Aug 5, 7:47 am, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bfiefly, as I understood the discussion some months ago: In 2.x, the > class body is executed in a local namespace implemented as a normal dict > and *then* passed to the metaclass. In 3.0, the metaclass gets brief > control *before* execution so, among other possibilities, it can > substitute an (insertion) ordered dict for the local namespace. I will > leave the details to Michele's article and its eventual translation. > > tjr
BTW, since I do not really follow python-dev, do you know if some consensus was reached on the issue of adding an ordered dict implementation to the standard library? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
