[Tutor] List Changing Order

[Corey Richardson]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Corey Richardson wrote:
>> Tutors,
>>
>> I recall that the keys of dictionaries have arbitrary order, and may 
>> change over time. Is this true of lists? I can't find the answer from 
>> a simple Google search. Thank you!
>
> Only if you re-arrange it yourself.
>
> list.sort(), list.reverse() and random.shuffle(list) explicitly change 
> the list's order. You can also manually move items around, e.g.:
>
> list[3], list[5] = list[5], list[3]  # swap items 3 and 5
>
> but otherwise lists keep their order.
>

Many thanks, everyone who replied.