On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:39:22 +0100, Christoph Zwerschke wrote > Carsten Haese schrieb: > > > Thus quoth the Zen of Python: > > "Explicit is better than implicit." > > "In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess." > > > > With those in mind, since an odict behaves mostly like a dictionary, [] > > should always refer to keys. An odict implementation that wants to allow > > access by numeric index should provide explicitly named methods for that > > purpose. > > Exactly. But I don't think in this case such methods would be > needed. You easily get the i-th value in the ordered dict as > d.values()[i]. > > -- Chris
True enough, but unless the odict has its list of values on hand, you're asking the odict to build a list of all its values just so that you can get the i'th element. Having a method that does the equivalent of d[d.sequence[i]] would be cleaner and more efficient. -Carsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list