dict.keys() and dict.values() are always the same order, is it?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 20Apr2010 11:03, Menghan Zheng <menghan412 at gmail.com> wrote:
| Is it assured the following statement is always True?
| If it is always True, in which version, python2.x or python3.x?
| 
| >>> a = dict()
| ...
| >>> assert(a.values == [a[k] for k in a.keys()])
| --> ?

It is always true. At this URL:

  http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=values#dict.items

it says:

  If items(), keys(), values(), iteritems(), iterkeys(), and
  itervalues() are called with no intervening modifications to the
  dictionary, the lists will directly correspond. This allows the
  creation of (value, key) pairs using zip(): pairs = zip(d.values(),
  d.keys()).

BTW, I got to that particular piece of text by starting at the doco for
the .values() method of "dict", which links to the .items() method.

Cheers,
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I couldn't think of anything else to do with it, so I put it on the web.