how to keep order key in a dictionary

[BartlebyScrivener]

On Nov 4, 7:19 am, azrael <jura.gro... at gmail.com> wrote:

>  For this dictionary it is realy
> important to keep the right order. Is it possible to arange them in a
> specific order?

Not sure what order you want, but how about sorting the keys?

def printdict(dict):
"""print sorted key:value pairs"""
keys = dict.keys()
keys.sort()
for key in keys:
    print key, ":", dict[key]

from Python Visual Quickstart, Chris Fehily p. 157