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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst index a150d9d1f7..e14125afb4 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -422,7 +422,9 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: to have this new dict implementation in the language for a few releases before changing the language spec to mandate order-preserving semantics for all current and future Python - implementations). + implementations; this also helps preserve backwards-compatibility + with older versions of the language where random iteration order is + still in effect, e.g. Python 3.5). (Contributed by INADA Naoki in :issue:`27350`. Idea `originally suggested by Raymond Hettinger <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-December/123028.html>`_.) |