Modern Dictionaries by Raymond Hettinger

Abstract Python s dictionaries are stunningly good. Over the years, many great ideas have combined together to produce the modern implementation in Python 3. 6. This fun talk is given by Raymond Hettinger, the Python core developer responsible for the set implementation and who designed the compactandordered dict implemented in CPython for Python 3. 6 and in PyPy for Python 2. 7. He will use pictures and little bits of pure python code to explain all of the key ideas and how they evolved over time. He will a