Nathaniel Smith writes:
> To make sure I understand, do you actually have a script like this, or
> is this hypothetical?
I have a couple of doctests that assume that pprint will sort by key,
yes. It makes the tests look quite a bit nicer by pprinting the
output, and I get sorting (which matters for some older Pythons) for
free. (I admit I don't actually use those tests with older Pythons,
but the principle stands.)
I don't see why we don't do the obvious, namely add the option to use
"native" order to the PrettyPrinter class, with the default being
backward compatible.
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