Document how collections.ChainMap() determines iteration order

[rhettinger]

BPO	36060
Nosy	@rhettinger
PRs	bpo-36060: Document how collections.ChainMap() determines iteration order #11969 [3.7] bpo-36060: Document how collections.ChainMap() determines iteration order (GH-11969) #11978

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[rhettinger]

Am working on a PR for this now.

Prior to regular dicts becoming ordered, the was no expectation for ChainMap() to have any particular order. Now that such an expectation might exist, I need to document what ChainMap() does and perhaps why it does it.

[rhettinger]

New changeset 86f093f by Raymond Hettinger in branch 'master':
bpo-36060: Document how collections.ChainMap() determines iteration order (GH-11969)
86f093f

[rhettinger]

New changeset 7121a6e by Raymond Hettinger (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.7':
bpo-36060: Document how collections.ChainMap() determines iteration order (GH-11969) (GH-11978)
7121a6e