John Machin wrote: > "the lists will directly correspond"? What does that mean?
It means that e.g. zip(d.keys(), d.values()) == d.items() is guaranteed to be True. > Why not > "the lists will be equal i.e. list1 == list2"? > > How about "Provided that keys are neither added nor deleted, the order > of iteration will not change"? Neither of those convey the above guarantee. -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list