On 11 Nov 2011, at 12:54, Alexander Harrowell wrote: > This is surely inherent in the fact that python dictionaries are not > deterministically ordered. The dox don't say that you will always get key-val > pairs back in *different* orders - just that you cannot rely on them being in > the *same* order. Equally, you can't assume that they *won't*.
In CPython they *are* deterministically ordered though through their implementation. The API just states that for the purposes of the API you cannot rely on the order of the keys/values returned as that is a side effect of the implementation. -Matt > NETSIGHT > > Matt Hamilton > Technical Director > Email > ma...@netsight.co.uk > > Telephone > +44 (0) 117 909 0901 > > > Web > www.netsight.co.uk > > Address > 40 Berkeley Square, Clifton > Bristol BS8 1HU
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