sorting a dictionary

[user at domain.invalid]

Rene Pijlman wrote:
> user at domain.invalid:
> 
>>Suppose I have dictionary (associative arry) with people's names and
>>ages, like
>>
>>    names = {"Bob":27, "Larry":35, "Curly":65, "Moe":66, "Jeff":31,
>>             "Guido":34, "Parrot":36}
>>
>>How can I sort this? 
> 
> 
> This is explained in:
> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0265.html
> 

How about creating a sorted dictionary then? That is, add elements
to the dictionary in the order they are supposed to be in.
Is that not possible?