Right, PEP 3115. Indeed one of the reasons is that "there is an important body of use cases where it would be useful to preserve the order in which a class memb

Right, PEP 3115. Indeed one of the reasons is that "there is an important body of use cases where it would be useful to preserve the order in which a class members are declared." http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3115/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3115/