Add examples to whatsnew entry for OrderedDict.

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Raymond Hettinger 2009-11-12 17:42:47 +00:00
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@ -81,6 +81,28 @@ Support was also added for third-party tools like `PyYAML <http://pyyaml.org/>`_
PEP written by Armin Ronacher and Raymond Hettinger. Implementation
written by Raymond Hettinger.
Since an ordered dictionary remembers its insertion order, it can be used
in conjuction with sorting to make a sorted dictionary::
>>> # regular unsorted dictionary
>>> d = {'banana': 3, 'apple':4, 'pear': 1, 'orange': 2}
>>> # dictionary sorted by key
>>> OrderedDict(sorted(d.items(), key=lambda t: t[0]))
OrderedDict([('apple', 4), ('banana', 3), ('orange', 2), ('pear', 1)])
>>> # dictionary sorted by value
>>> OrderedDict(sorted(d.items(), key=lambda t: t[1]))
OrderedDict([('pear', 1), ('orange', 2), ('banana', 3), ('apple', 4)])
>>> # dictionary sorted by length of the key string
>>> OrderedDict(sorted(d.items(), key=lambda t: len(t[0])))
OrderedDict([('pear', 1), ('apple', 4), ('orange', 2), ('banana', 3)])
The new sorted dictionaries maintain their sort order when entries
are deleted. But when new keys are added, the keys are appended
to the end and the sort is not maintained.
PEP 378: Format Specifier for Thousands Separator
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