#7082 drop sorted() and OrderedDict in CoercingEncoder after dropping python 2 Issue created by cosmicexplorer We refactored

stable_json_hash()

to become

stable_json_sha1()

in #6475. It is possible for python 2.7 to have random dict key ordering (see this comment in that PR), but in 3.6+ the ordering is always stable (although not stable across python versions, which is fine). We can drop the

sorted()

and

OrderedDict

encoding and simply return a dict with keys

k

encoded with

self._maybe_encode_dict_key(k)

, and values

v

with

self.default(v)

, as is shown in a subsequent comment on that PR. We would need to profile this, but it's possible this could speed up initialization. pantsbuild/pants