Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of SortedDict

Timestamp:

Jan 26, 2009, 10:53:52 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

kiwi

Comment:

Example how to correctly create new SortedDict.

SortedDict

@@ -12 +12 @@
 `value_for_index(index)`[[br]]
 Returns the value of the item at the given zero-based index.
+
+== Creating new SortedDict ==
+
+If you create new SortedDict using basic Python dict, SortedDict will not preserve key order. The reason is that SortedDict will receive (basic Python) unordered dictionary and therefore doesn't know about key order.
+
+This does NOT work.
+{{{
+d = SortedDict({
+        'b': 1,
+        'a': 2,
+        'c': 3
+})
+}}}
+
+This works. SortedDict got keys in right order.
+{{{
+d2 = SortedDict()
+d2['b'] = 1
+d2['a'] = 2
+d2['c'] = 3
+}}}