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| author | Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard <d.f.hilliard@gmail.com> | 2017-02-21 06:20:23 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mariatta <Mariatta@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-02-21 06:20:23 (GMT) |
| commit | 32e8f9bdfd4324f1aa4fbbdf1ed8536f2b00cabb (patch) | |
| tree | 7fbfbfe28977418cc5c889b117dd98572cea1d60 | |
| parent | 8fb1f6e039cbdeb333d83b7a62f0f37af4ce6e02 (diff) | |
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bpo-29453: Remove reference to undefined dictionary ordering in Tutorial (GH-140)
As of Python 3.6 **kwargs are ordered, thus, remove the paragraph stating that
ordering is undefined and change snippet to remove the unecessary sorted call.
* Add sentence mentioning guaranteed output order of kwargs
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst index d434618..6a9bb48 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst @@ -492,8 +492,7 @@ function like this:: for arg in arguments: print(arg) print("-" * 40) - keys = sorted(keywords.keys()) - for kw in keys: + for kw in keywords: print(kw, ":", keywords[kw]) It could be called like this:: @@ -513,13 +512,13 @@ and of course it would print: It's very runny, sir. It's really very, VERY runny, sir. ---------------------------------------- - client : John Cleese shopkeeper : Michael Palin + client : John Cleese sketch : Cheese Shop Sketch -Note that the list of keyword argument names is created by sorting the result -of the keywords dictionary's ``keys()`` method before printing its contents; -if this is not done, the order in which the arguments are printed is undefined. +Note that the order in which the keyword arguments are printed is guaranteed +to match the order in which they were provided in the function call. + .. _tut-arbitraryargs: |