[Tutor] Using contents of a document to change file names, (was Re: how to extract data only after a certain ...)

Sander Sweers sander.sweers at gmail.com
Tue Oct 12 21:39:19 CEST 2010


On 12 October 2010 21:15, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick at gmail.com> wrote:
> When the dictionary is retrieved, its order depends on the hashed values
> rather than the keys themself.

If (big IF here) you really need an ordered dict you can use the
OrderedDict from the collections module. However this will only
guarantee *insertion* order (except for existing keys). Do make sure
you read pep 372 [1].

Greets
Sander

[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0372/


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