Reword the OrderedDict entry to emphasize the default behavior,

to show equivalent code, and to provide a use case.
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Raymond Hettinger 2011-01-18 20:25:04 +00:00
parent ad62b03949
commit 23ab1016a0
1 changed files with 12 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -798,19 +798,21 @@ collections
* The :class:`collections.OrderedDict` class has a new method
:meth:`~collections.OrderedDict.move_to_end` which takes an existing key and
moves it to either the beginning or end of an ordered sequence. When the
dictionary sequence is being used as a queue, these operations correspond to
"move to the front of the line" or "move to the back of the line":
moves it to either the first or last position in the ordered sequence.
The default is to move an item to the last position. This is equivalent of
renewing an entry with ``od[k] = od.pop(k)``.
A fast move-to-end operation is useful for resequencing entries. For example,
an ordered dictionary can being used to track access order by aging entries
from oldest to most recently accessed.
>>> d = OrderedDict.fromkeys(['a', 'b', 'X', 'd', 'e'])
>>> list(d)
['a', 'b', 'X', 'd', 'e']
>>> d.move_to_end('X', last=True)
>>> d.move_to_end('X')
>>> list(d)
['a', 'b', 'd', 'e', 'X']
>>> d.move_to_end('X', last=False)
>>> list(d)
['X', 'a', 'b', 'd', 'e']
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.)
@ -1683,11 +1685,11 @@ The :mod:`os` module has two new functions: :func:`~os.fsencode` and
:data:`os.environ`, :func:`os.getenvb` function and
:data:`os.supports_bytes_environ` constant.
``'mbcs'`` encoding doesn't ignore the error handler argument any more. By
MBCS encoding doesn't ignore the error handler argument any more. By
default (strict mode), it raises an UnicodeDecodeError on undecodable byte
sequence and UnicodeEncodeError on unencodable character. To get the ``'mbcs'``
sequence and UnicodeEncodeError on unencodable character. To get the MBCS
encoding of Python 3.1, use ``'ignore'`` error handler to decode and
``'replace'`` error handler to encode. ``'mbcs'`` supports ``'strict'`` and
``'replace'`` error handler to encode. The MBCS codec supports ``'strict'`` and
``'ignore'`` error handlers for decoding, and ``'strict'`` and ``'replace'``
for encoding.