Sorting dict keys

Alex Popescu nospam.themindstorm at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 19:55:56 EDT 2007


Miles <semanticist at gmail.com> wrote in
news:a49e45f50707201627n524f6a49n13f2ca97f55d4133 at mail.gmail.com: 

> On 7/20/07, Alex Popescu <nospam.themindstorm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you just want to iterate over your dict in an ordered manner than
>> all you have to do is:
>>
>> for k in my_dict.keys().sort():
>>   # rest of the code
> 
> I think you meant sorted(my_dict.keys()), since, as you just pointed
> out, the sort() method returns None.
> 
>> If you just want to keep a list of ordered keys you can probably do
>> something like:
>>
>> key_list = list(my_dict.keys())
>> key_list.sort()
> 
> Creating a copy with list() is unnecessary, as keys() already returns
> a copy. 
> 
> -Miles

You are absolutely right about both points (it looks like answering python 
question very late in the evening doesn't work well for me, or at least not 
yet :-)).

./alex
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