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Re:PySolFC – A collection of Solitaire games for Python by xapata on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:39PM (#14061789)
Yeah, but... those are ugly. ``m = {}`` is beautiful.
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Re:PySolFC – A collection of Solitaire games for Python by Macha on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:45PM (#14061849)
dict == OrderedDict is a cpython implementation detail. Not doing the import is just leaving a footgun for yourself if you ever decide to try PyPy or VOC or similar.
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Re:PySolFC – A collection of Solitaire games for Python by rspeer on Friday April 07, 2017 @02:50PM (#14062460)
I don't think it's much of a footgun, and I don't think it's limited to CPython.

In Python 3.6, kwargs are ordered. In all versions of Python, kwargs are a dict. Therefore, in any implementation of Python 3.6, dicts are ordered.

The dev team has stopped short of promising that dicts are ordered, but I can't see how one would realistically be harmed by assuming it to be true.

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Re:PySolFC – A collection of Solitaire games for Python by xapata on Friday April 07, 2017 @03:15PM (#14062692)
The 3.6 CPython dict item storage algorithm was implemented in PyPy first.
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