[BangPypers] Dictionary : An elementary question

[Sahasranaman MS]

  On Thursday 19 August 2010 07:08 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 10:28 -0700, Anand Shankar wrote:
>> I have no clues. Any inputs??
> sort order of dictionary keys is not guaranteed. Only a list will return
> items in the same order as entered.
Python has an OrderedDict class from Python 3.1  
http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.1.html#pep-372-ordered-dictionaries
For older versions of python,  there are several other implementations 
that you could use.