"Ordered" dicts

Chris Cioffi evenprimes at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 10:15:07 EDT 2005


On 10/08/05, Simon Brunning <simon.brunning at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> On 8/10/05, Chris Cioffi <evenprimes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have lots of code that looks like:
> > keys = mydict.keys()
> > keys.sort()
> 
> keys = sorted(mydict.keys())

 While the sorted() built in addressed (yet another) community desire, I 
don't think this addresses the underlying expectation of getting dictionary 
keys in some order. 
 It works, but it feel like a kludge to me. <shrug>
 Chris
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