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Author	skip.montanaro
Recipients	lehmannro, rhettinger, skip.montanaro, wangchun
Date	2009-05-26.12:37:58
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Message-id	<1243341480.46.0.504538534328.issue6105@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I can't see that the order of keys should matter for language-neutral serialization libs like json or xmlrpclib. You're quite possibly going to be communicating with something on the other end which doesn't have an OrderedDict-like class. Why add the extra complication to the library? Even with Python of recent enough vintage at both ends, I can't see that you could dumps() an OrderedDict then loads() the resulting string and get an OrderedDict out as a result. You should get a dict, right?

I can't see that the order of keys should matter for language-neutral
serialization libs like json or xmlrpclib.  You're quite possibly
going to be communicating with something on the other end which doesn't
have an OrderedDict-like class.  Why add the extra complication to the
library?

Even with Python of recent enough vintage at both ends, I can't see
that you could dumps() an OrderedDict then loads() the resulting
string and get an OrderedDict out as a result.  You should get a dict,
right?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-05-26 12:38:00	skip.montanaro	set	recipients: + skip.montanaro, rhettinger, lehmannro, wangchun
2009-05-26 12:38:00	skip.montanaro	set	messageid: <1243341480.46.0.504538534328.issue6105@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-05-26 12:37:59	skip.montanaro	link	issue6105 messages
2009-05-26 12:37:58	skip.montanaro	create