Cleaning up conditionals

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Deborah Swanson
<python at deborahswanson.net> wrote:
> OrderedDict is the new development I'd read about, but I think the key
> order is just the order keys were added to the dict. The nice thing
> about that though is when you loop over a dict you will always get the
> key/value pairs in the same order, where with the standard dict they
> come out in arbitrary order. Very disconcerting if you're watching the
> loop as it progresses over muiltiple executions. I imagine you could
> sort an OrderedDict so the keys originally added randomly would be put
> into some kind of good order.

If you want a "SortedDict", you can get that fairly easily just by
iterating over sorted(d) rather than simply d. You can also subclass
the dictionary and change how it iterates, if you like.

ChrisA