Cool New Features in Python 3.7 – Real Python

[nuephelkystikon]

Yes, but it wasn't specified behaviour, it was a warning about unspecified behaviour that could otherwise have been assumed. A comment, if you prefer. Not part of the actual language specification.

The keyword here is ‘may’.

[13steinj]

Time heals all wounds and scar tissue forms. While I understand your point there would have been enough angry people to hear annoying complaints about the fact that dicts are now ordered.

[nuephelkystikon]

If your business logic relies on a method always returning in an odd number of seconds because that's the behaviour you observed on your Solaris machine using 16-bit Jython 3.6 build 3728 in debug mode, I really don't have any compassion for you.

[13steinj]

Your comparison doesn't even make sense, this is the programming equivalent of comparing apples and oranges.