>> I doubt there are many uses at all for dict.keys() -- most uses can jsut use the dict.

>
> I use key() all the time to sort the keys before printing.
>
> for name in sorted(dict.key()):
> print(name, dict[name)

Why not just use sorted(dict)?

Thanks for so nicely making my point :-)

Though I do like the keys() version: it seems more obvious to me.

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