[Tutor] sorting dictionary keys?

[Kent Johnson]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Norman Khine <norman at khine.net> wrote:
> how about this
>
>
>  >>> d = { 'a' : 1, 'd' : 2, 'b' : 3, 'c' : 0 }
>  >>> for i in sorted(set(d)):
>  ...     print "%s\t%s" % (i, d[i])

The set() is not needed.

Also to iterate over key, value pairs in order by key you can use this:
for k, v in sorted(d.items()):
  print '%s\t%s' (k, v)

Kent