Commit 396ecb9c authored by Andrés Delfino's avatar Andrés Delfino Committed by INADA Naoki

bpo-33799: Remove non-ordered dicts comments from FAQ

parent b1f69029
......@@ -495,11 +495,7 @@ on the key and a per-process seed; for example, "Python" could hash to
to 1142331976. The hash code is then used to calculate a location in an
internal array where the value will be stored. Assuming that you're storing
keys that all have different hash values, this means that dictionaries take
constant time -- O(1), in computer science notation -- to retrieve a key. It
also means that no sorted order of the keys is maintained, and traversing the
array as the ``.keys()`` and ``.items()`` do will output the dictionary's
content in some arbitrary jumbled order that can change with every invocation of
a program.
constant time -- O(1), in computer science notation -- to retrieve a key.
Why must dictionary keys be immutable?
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......@@ -1315,11 +1315,6 @@ that final assignment still results in an error, because tuples are immutable.
Dictionaries
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How can I get a dictionary to store and display its keys in a consistent order?
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Use :class:`collections.OrderedDict`.
I want to do a complicated sort: can you do a Schwartzian Transform in Python?
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