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| author | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2016-09-09 18:18:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2016-09-09 18:18:21 (GMT) |
| commit | 6760c690227cc915c5e721c0e5b1a0ba9a94e20e (patch) | |
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Mention how requiring ordered dicts breaks backwards-compatibility.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst index a150d9d..e14125a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -422,7 +422,9 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: to have this new dict implementation in the language for a few releases before changing the language spec to mandate order-preserving semantics for all current and future Python - implementations). + implementations; this also helps preserve backwards-compatibility + with older versions of the language where random iteration order is + still in effect, e.g. Python 3.5). (Contributed by INADA Naoki in :issue:`27350`. Idea `originally suggested by Raymond Hettinger <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/123028.html>`_.) |