[BangPypers] Dictionary : An elementary question

[Shashwat Anand]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Anand Shankar <anand_shankar at yahoo.com>wrote:

> During a tutorial python session with my colleagues I was presented with a
> basic
> question
>
> >>> d = {'apple':2,'banana':5, 'coke': 6}
> >>> print d.keys()
> ['coke', 'apple', 'banana']
>
>
> Question is why does it not return
>
> ['apple','banana','coke']
>
> Similarly:
>
> >>> d = {'a':2,'b':4,'c':5,'d':4,'e':3}
> >>> print d.keys()
> ['a', 'c', 'b', 'e', 'd']
>
> why not
>
> ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']
>
> I have no clues. Any inputs??
>

You will most likely want to read about how Hash-tables work.


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