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| author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2006-06-02 23:22:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2006-06-02 23:22:51 (GMT) |
| commit | d609b1a20e9cc100d2998e030ec88347b6943904 (patch) | |
| tree | 1b21822316e37c0d09f0e5e1f64156e5a2bb1b4f /Misc | |
| parent | 7f7386cfd2936a552d73fed2ddd12c5a54004034 (diff) | |
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pprint functions used to sort a dict (by key) if and only if
the output required more than one line. "Small" dicts got
displayed in seemingly random order (the hash-induced order
produced by dict.__repr__). None of this was documented.
Now pprint functions always sort dicts by key, and the docs
promise it.
This was proposed and agreed to during the PyCon 2006 core
sprint -- I just didn't have time for it before now.
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@@ -101,6 +101,12 @@ Extension Modules Library ------- +- The functions in the ``pprint`` module now sort dictionaries by key + before computing the display. Before 2.5, ``pprint`` sorted a dictionary + if and only if its display required more than one line, although that + wasn't documented. The new behavior increases predictability; e.g., + using ``pprint.pprint(a_dict)`` in a doctest is now reliable. + - Patch #1497027: try HTTP digest auth before basic auth in urllib2 (thanks for J. J. Lee). |