Sorting dict keys

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

 montyphyton at gmail.com wrote:

> I'd like to do it in one line because what I am trying to do is,
> after all, a single, simple enough action. 

No, it's two actions: 

1. You extract a list of keys from the dict
2. you sort it

> I find the suggested b = sorted(a.keys()) much more readable than
> breaking it up in two lines. In the long run, I guess it's a
> matter of personal taste... 

Yes. You'll see, at least if you do a third thing with the list it
will start to become less well-readable.

Regards,


Björn

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