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[Python-Dev] Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and gets a private version; and keywords become ordered

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Tue Sep 13 20:02:37 EDT 2016 
On 2016-09-14 00:42, Greg Ewing wrote:
> MRAB wrote:
>> On 2016-09-13 07:57, Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev wrote:
>>
>>> "tables the idea"  has the US meaning of close it down, not the UK
>>> meaning of open it up? :)
>>
>> A better phrase would've been "shelves the idea". There's even a module
>> in Python called "shelve", which makes it Pythonic. :-)
>
> So does that mean we should have a "table" module for managing
> objects we want to currently work on?
>
Yes, although in the US locale it would be an alias for the 'shelve' 
module. :-)
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