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diff Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex @ 34029:81a1f754d32c legacy-trunk
Clarify the ordering of dictionary keys.
| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> |
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| date | Thu, 25 Nov 2004 05:16:19 +0000 |
| parents | 023801332395 |
| children | 43c00f0e6305 |
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--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex Thu Nov 25 04:47:09 2004 +0000 +++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex Thu Nov 25 05:16:19 2004 +0000 @@ -1367,8 +1367,10 @@ \item[(2)] \versionadded{2.2} -\item[(3)] Keys and values are listed in random order. If -\method{items()}, \method{keys()}, \method{values()}, +\item[(3)] Keys and values are listed in an arbitrary order which is +non-random, varies across Python implementations, and depends on the +dictionary's history of insertions and deletions. +If \method{items()}, \method{keys()}, \method{values()}, \method{iteritems()}, \method{iterkeys()}, and \method{itervalues()} are called with no intervening modifications to the dictionary, the lists will directly correspond. This allows the creation of