Access dictionary in order?
Diego Dainese
ddainese97x at x18dsi.unive.it
Mon Jul 26 05:00:19 EDT 1999
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 12:22:03 -0500 (CDT), Skip Montanaro wrote:
> You demonstrated the best way. There is no need to save the key list unless
> the dictionary is very large though. Just grab 'em and sort 'em when you
> need:
>
> keylist = dict.keys()
> keylist.sort()
> for key in keylist: do_stuff(dict[key])
>
But how much time requires the keylist generation?
That is, the keylist is made traversing all the dictionary nodes or is
cached inside it?
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