Regarding Dictionaries in python

[David Eppstein]

In article <mailman.1050957134.26691.python-list at python.org>,
 "Mehta, Anish" <Anish.Mehta at enst-bretagne.fr> wrote:

> why it is not showing the items in order in which i have inserted. 
> Please tell me why it is happing like this.

Because dictionaries store things out-of-order, in hash tables, so that 
they can perform lookups quickly.  If maintaining the order of some 
things is important, that's what lists are for.

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science