On 12/15/2017 11:55 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Raymond Hettinger
> <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com <mailto:raymond.hettinger at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> > On Dec 15, 2017, at 7:53 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org <mailto:guido at python.org>> wrote:
> >
> > Make it so. "Dict keeps insertion order" is the ruling. Thanks!
>> Thank you. That is wonderful news :-)
>> Would it be reasonable to replace some of the OrderedDict() uses in
> the standard library with dict()? For example, have namedtuples's
> _asdict() go back to returning a plain dict as it did in its
> original incarnation. Also, it looks like argparse could save an
> import by using a regular dict.
>>> If it's documented as OrderedDict that would be backwards incompatible,
> since that has additional methods. Even if not documented it's likely to
> break some code. So, I'm not sure about this (though I agree with the
> sentiment that OrderedDict is much less important now).
For dataclasses, I'll change from OrderedDict to dict, since there's no
backward compatibility concern.
But I need to remember to not do that when I put the 3.6 version on PyPI.
Eric.
