On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Jason King <[email protected]> wrote:

> yup, associative arrays , (in awk), dicts in python , and the perl version
> of them are all like this, you can't specify the order in which the
> contents are output.
>
> There is an OrderedDict (http://docs.python.org/2/
> library/collections.html#collections.OrderedDict)
> if insertion order is important to you.


And, to add to Jason's Rosetta Stone of mappings, I believe Ruby hashes
(which is the name dicts have in that faraway land) are always ordered, at
least from 1.9 onwards.

J
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