On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Sander Sweers <sander.swe...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 12 October 2010 21:15, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When the dictionary is retrieved, its order depends on the hashed values > > rather than the keys themself. > > If (big IF here) you really need an ordered dict you can use the > OrderedDict from the collections module. However this will only > guarantee *insertion* order (except for existing keys). Do make sure > you read pep 372 [1]. > > Greets > Sander > > [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0372/ > _______________________________________________ > It seems a common practice to create an ordered list of the keys, then iterate over the list to operate on the dictionary. -- Joel Goldstick
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