> from itertools import count, izip
>
> def dict2str(d, preferred_order = ['gid', 'type', 'parent', 'name']):
> last = len(preferred_order)
> rank = dict(izip(preferred_order, count()))
> pairs = d.items()
> pairs.sort(key=lambda (k,v): rank.get(k, (last, k, v)))
> return '{%s}' % repr(pairs)[1:-1]
P.S. If you need the string to evaluatable like repr(d), then change
the last line to:
return 'dict(%r)' % pairs
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