bpo-39879: Update datamodel docs to include dict ordering (GH-19006)

Co-authored-by: furkanonder <furkantahaonder@gmail.com>
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equal (e.g., ``1`` and ``1.0``) then they can be used interchangeably to index
the same dictionary entry.
Dictionaries preserve insertion order, meaning that keys will be produced
in the same order they were added sequentially over the dictionary.
Replacing an existing key does not change the order, however removing a key
and re-inserting it will add it to the end instead of keeping its old place.
Dictionaries are mutable; they can be created by the ``{...}`` notation (see
section :ref:`dict`).
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additional examples of mapping types, as does the :mod:`collections`
module.
.. versionchanged:: 3.7
Dictionaries did not preserve insertion order in versions of Python before 3.6.
In CPython 3.6, insertion order was preserved, but it was considered
an implementation detail at that time rather than a language guarantee.
Callable types
.. index::
object: callable

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@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Ray Allen
Billy G. Allie
Jamiel Almeida
Kevin Altis
Samy Lahfa
Skyler Leigh Amador
Joe Amenta
Rose Ames

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Updated :ref:`datamodel` docs to include :func:`dict` insertion order preservation.
Patch by Furkan Onder and Samy Lahfa.