bpo-39879: Update datamodel docs to include dict ordering (GH-19006)

Co-authored-by: furkanonder <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 59c644e)

Co-authored-by: Lahfa Samy <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Doc/reference/datamodel.rst

@@ -420,6 +420,11 @@ Mappings
       equal (e.g., ``1`` and ``1.0``) then they can be used interchangeably to index
       the same dictionary entry.
 
+      Dictionaries preserve insertion order, meaning that keys will be produced
+      in the same order they were added sequentially over the dictionary.
+      Replacing an existing key does not change the order, however removing a key
+      and re-inserting it will add it to the end instead of keeping its old place.
+
       Dictionaries are mutable; they can be created by the ``{...}`` notation (see
       section :ref:`dict`).
 
@@ -431,6 +436,11 @@ Mappings
       additional examples of mapping types, as does the :mod:`collections`
       module.
 
+      .. versionchanged:: 3.7
+         Dictionaries did not preserve insertion order in versions of Python before 3.6.
+         In CPython 3.6, insertion order was preserved, but it was considered
+         an implementation detail at that time rather than a language guarantee.
+
 Callable types
    .. index::
       object: callable

Misc/ACKS

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Ray Allen
 Billy G. Allie
 Jamiel Almeida
 Kevin Altis
+Samy Lahfa
 Skyler Leigh Amador
 Joe Amenta
 Rose Ames

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-03-16-18-12-02.bpo-39879.CnQ7Cv.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Updated :ref:`datamodel` docs to include :func:`dict` insertion order preservation.
+Patch by Furkan Onder and Samy Lahfa.