You weaken his rhetoric; he writes like its crit-bit all the way for all purposes. And since there is not a queue of people complaining that Python's dict is n

You weaken his rhetoric; he writes like its crit-bit all the way for all purposes. And since there is not a queue of people complaining that Python's dict is not iterable in order, I'd say he's wrong. Random access in a dict is the most common use-case by a very long chalk.