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  • Wrong title, article has "How Does Python’s OrderedDict Maintain Order?"
  • Title of the article is "How…", not "Why…", and "why" is not discussed. (My understanding is that the "why" is "because the implementation acted that way without an official guarantee, and folks depended on the implementation detail, so it became guaranteed.)

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