From 966cd111e5fc11f4f0bb973b97229b6d220f281e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 08:20:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-29453: Remove reference to undefined dictionary ordering in Tutorial (GH-140) As of Python 3.6 **kwargs are ordered, thus, remove the paragraph stating that ordering is undefined and change snippet to remove the unecessary sorted call. * Add sentence mentioning guaranteed output order of kwargs (cherry picked from commit 32e8f9bdfd4324f1aa4fbbdf1ed8536f2b00cabb) --- Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst index d43461886e7933..6a9bb4889ff857 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst @@ -492,8 +492,7 @@ function like this:: for arg in arguments: print(arg) print("-" * 40) - keys = sorted(keywords.keys()) - for kw in keys: + for kw in keywords: print(kw, ":", keywords[kw]) It could be called like this:: @@ -513,13 +512,13 @@ and of course it would print: It's very runny, sir. It's really very, VERY runny, sir. ---------------------------------------- - client : John Cleese shopkeeper : Michael Palin + client : John Cleese sketch : Cheese Shop Sketch -Note that the list of keyword argument names is created by sorting the result -of the keywords dictionary's ``keys()`` method before printing its contents; -if this is not done, the order in which the arguments are printed is undefined. +Note that the order in which the keyword arguments are printed is guaranteed +to match the order in which they were provided in the function call. + .. _tut-arbitraryargs: