Dictionary Keys question

[Christian Heimes]

FireNWater wrote:
> I'm curious why the different outputs of this code.  If I make the
> dictionary with letters as the keys, they are not listed in the
> dictionary in alphabetical order, but if I use the integers then the
> keys are in numerical order.
> 
> I know that the order of the keys is not important in a dictionary,
> but I was just curious about what causes the differences.  Thanks!!

Currently the order of dict keys depend on the hash of the object. Try
hash(1) and hash('a').