On 11.06.15 02:58, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote:The problem is that there are two different ways repr might write out a dict equal to {'a': 1, 'b': 2}. This can make tests brittle -- e.g. it's why doctest fails badly at examples involving dictionaries. Text format protocol buffers output everything sorted, so that you can do textual diffs for compatibility tests and such.With Python's JSON module [1], you can pass sort_keys=True to stipulate that the keys be lexically ordered, which should make the output "canonical". Pike's Standards.JSON.encode() [2] can take a flag value to canonicalize the output, which currently has the same effect (sort mappings by their indices). I did a quick check for Ruby and didn't find anything in its standard library JSON module, but knowing Ruby, it'll be available somewhere in a gem.
AFAIK Ruby's dicts are ordered. So the output is pretty stable. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
