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> Word to the wise... as of Python 3.7, the regular dictionary data structure guarantees order.

Which means you still should use it if you might run on 3.6 or earlier.



Even for 3.6 it's still true, just not guaranteed in writing: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39980744/5044950

And Python <=3.7 is already end-of-life anyways: https://devguide.python.org/versions/


This hit me bad once bad. I tested the regular dict and it _looked_ like it was ordered. Turned out, 1 out of about 100000 times it was not. And I had a lot of trouble identifying the reason 3 weeks later, when the bug was buried deep in complex code, and it appeared mostly what looked like random.




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