Ordered dictionary?

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Leif K-Brooks wrote:

> Josiah Carlson wrote:
> 
>>> I need to associate a string (key) with an integer (value). A 
>>> dictionary would do the job, except for the fact that it must be 
>>> ordered. I also need to look up the value for a specific key easily, 
>>> so a list of tuples wouldn't work.
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>>
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>> How must the dictionary be ordered?  Do you need the keys or the 
>> values sorted?
> 
> 
> Sorry for not making that clear, I need it sorted by the order of 
> insertion. Looks like 
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/107747 might do 
> what I want...

That should do. Looks promising, but I think it uses the old style of 
extending the dictionary (Not that it's bad) ...

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