access dictionary with preferred order ?

[James Stroud]

This is an "ordered dict":

   http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/438823

On Friday 21 October 2005 21:18, bonono at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if there is a dictionary data type that allows me to
> define the order of access when iterating it using items/keys etc. ?
>
> An example:
>
> a=dict(a=dict(), c=dict(), h=dict())
> prefer=['e','h', 'a']
>
> for x in a.values: print x
>
> would give me
> {h:dict()}, {a:dict()}, then the rest which I don't care about the
> order ?

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