In what order does Python read dictionary keys?

[Will Ware]

Emile van Sebille (emile at fenx.com) wrote:
: ... is there a way to combine these
: two steps into a single statement, along the lines of:
: entrieskeys=entries.keys().sort()

That won't work as written, since sort() doesn't return anything. But
you can easily do it with a function.

def sortedDictionaryKeys(d):
  k = d.keys()
  k.sort()
  return k

print sortedDictionaryKeys({'r':1, 'g':2, 'b':3})
     ===> ['b', 'g', 'r']
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