[Tutor] List Changing Order

[Steven D'Aprano]

Corey Richardson wrote:
> Tutors,
> 
> I recall that the keys of dictionaries have arbitrary order, and may 
> change over time. Is this true of lists? I can't find the answer from a 
> simple Google search. Thank you!

Only if you re-arrange it yourself.

list.sort(), list.reverse() and random.shuffle(list) explicitly change 
the list's order. You can also manually move items around, e.g.:

list[3], list[5] = list[5], list[3]  # swap items 3 and 5

but otherwise lists keep their order.


-- 
Steven