In what order does Python read dictionary keys?
Will Ware
wware-nospam at world.std.com
Tue Jun 8 18:28:43 EDT 1999
Emile van Sebille (emile at fenx.com) wrote:
: ... is there a way to combine these
: two steps into a single statement, along the lines of:
: entrieskeys=entries.keys().sort()
That won't work as written, since sort() doesn't return anything. But
you can easily do it with a function.
def sortedDictionaryKeys(d):
k = d.keys()
k.sort()
return k
print sortedDictionaryKeys({'r':1, 'g':2, 'b':3})
===> ['b', 'g', 'r']
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