Ordering of dict keys & values

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:47:23 -0300, Wells Oliver <wells at submute.net>  
escribió:

> I understand that the keys in a dictionary are ordered not randomly but
> something practically close to it, but if I create a SQL query like so:
>
> query = 'INSERT INTO Batting (%s) VALUES(%s)' % (','.join(stats.keys()),
> ','.join(stats.values()))
>
> Can I at least rely on the value being in the same index as its
> corresponding key?

You already got the answer you wanted, but note that building a SQL  
statement that way is unsafe [1]. I prefer this way:

query= 'INSERT INTO Batting (%s) VALUES(%s)' % (
   ','.join(stats.keys()),
   ','.join(['?']*len(stats)))
cursor.execute(query, stats.values())

[1] If you don't know what "SQL injection" means, see http://xkcd.com/327/

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Gabriel Genellina