[Tutor] Curious dictionary printing

Cranky Frankie cranky.frankie at gmail.com
Tue May 8 13:27:48 CEST 2012


On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:31 PM, bob gailer <bgailer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Asking why does it not do what I want is not IMHO the best way to win
> friends here.

Good morning to you to, Bob.

I see now that dictionaries in Python act like relational databases in
that there is no inherent ordering. At first, when I simply wanted to
print one entry and it came out in what looked like a random order,
this didn't occur to me. A normal "dictionary" is in fact ordered.

Sorry for the disturbance.

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