[Tutor] List index usage: is there a more pythonesque way?

[Alan Gauld]

"C M Caine" <cmcaine at googlemail.com> wrote 

> That's the first I've read of iterating through dictionaries, I'd
> assumed it was impossible because they're unordered. 

Iteration doesn't require order, only to get each item once.
Even in very old Python versions you could iterate a dictionary 
via the keys() method. More recently you can do it directly - although 
the effect is the same. There is no guarantee of order only that 
you process every item once.

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