On 09/11/2013 02:39 PM, Tim Delaney wrote on PyDev:
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> I would think that retrieving the keys from the dict would return the transformed keys (I'd 
> call them canonical keys).

The more I think about this the more I agree.  A canonicaldict with a key function that simply stored the transformed key and it's value would seem to be a lot simpler:

  - no need to store a separate "presentation" key
  - no confusion about which of the first key/last key seen is stored
  - no mistakes with the "first" key not being added before real data
    and getting the presentation key wrong

Further, in order to store the non-canonical keys a separate list must be kept of the keys to preseed the canonicaldict; if we store the canonical keys a separate list must be kept for presentation purposes -- so worst case scenario we're keeping the same amount of information and best-case scenario the presentation of the keys doesn't matter and we just saved ourselves an extra data structure.