This is an "ordered dict": http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/438823
On Friday 21 October 2005 21:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering if there is a dictionary data type that allows me to > define the order of access when iterating it using items/keys etc. ? > > An example: > > a=dict(a=dict(), c=dict(), h=dict()) > prefer=['e','h', 'a'] > > for x in a.values: print x > > would give me > {h:dict()}, {a:dict()}, then the rest which I don't care about the > order ? -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list