On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Christoph Zwerschke wrote: > Fuzzyman schrieb: > >> Of course ours is ordered *and* orderable ! You can explicitly alter >> the sequence attribute to change the ordering. > > What I actually wanted to say is that there may be a confusion between a > "sorted dictionary" (one where the keys are automatically sorted) and an > "ordered dictionary" (where the keys are not automatically ordered, but > have a certain order that is preserved). Those who suggested that the > "sorted" function would be helpful probably thought of a "sorted > dictionary" rather than an "ordered dictionary."
Exactly. Python could also do with a sorted dict, like binary tree or something, but that's another story. tom -- When I see a man on a bicycle I have hope for the human race. -- H. G. Wells -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list