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[Python-Dev] How to update namedtuple asdict() to use dict instead of OrderedDict

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 08:24:05 EST 2019 
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 16:40, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:
>> On 1/30/2019 8:45 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>>> On Jan 30, 2019, at 3:41 PM, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:
>>> Would it be practical to add deprecated methods to regular dict for the OrderedDict reordering methods that raise with an error suggesting "To use this method, convert dict to OrderedDict." (or some better wording).
>> That's an interesting idea.  Regular dicts aren't well suited to the reordering operations (like lists, repeated inserts at the front of the sequence wouldn't be performant relative to OrderedDict which uses double-linked lists internally).  My instinct is to leave regular dicts alone so that they can focus on their primary task (being good a fast lookups).
> My goal was just to give a meaningful error message if someone misses the implications in What's New, and has code that actually does expect named_tuple.as_dict to have the ordering operations.

The downside of doing that is that automated code introspection tools
don't know that the methods don't really exist, they just see the
method names in the type dictionary and offer them up for code
completion.

So in this case, the extra runtime check isn't worth the cost of
breaking static code analysis and other forms of introspection.

Cheers,
Nick.

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