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Re:Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet (2018) by coldtea on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:59AM (#19076373)
Dictionaries should not be assumed to keep their orderings anyway.

That's why there's OrderredDict.

Unless the language explicitly says that dicts hold their order, even if they do, it's an implementation detail, and it should not be relied upon.

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Re:Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet (2018) by snicker7 on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:08AM (#19076440)
As of 3.7 (3.6 for cpython), dictionaries have a deterministic order.
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Re:Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet (2018) by thro_away_n on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:55AM (#19077294)
What's the best way to write code that relies on this deterministic order and prevent it from running incorrectly with older python versions?
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Re:Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet (2018) by b_tterc_p on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:09AM (#19077443)
Import collections.OrderedDict as you would have done beforehand. There are still some differences between them.

(Dicts in 3.7 and ordered dicts)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50872498/will-ordereddic...

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Re:Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet (2018) by BerislavLopac on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:32AM (#19076591)
If "the language explicitly says" something, then it's part of the specification and not an implementation detail.
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Re:Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet (2018) by coldtea on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:37AM (#19076629)
Sure, hence the "unless" I've used.
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