[Tutor] Is there a programmatic use for keys() and values()

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Jim Mooney <cybervigilante at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 June 2013 23:30, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
>
>>>> The sort() method doesn't work, but sorted does.
>
> How many times have I read you can't sort a dictionary in Python. Was
> I just misreading or was that true of older Pythons?

Dicts have no order:

>>> {'b': 'c', 'a': 'z'}
{'a': 'z', 'b': 'c'}

Moreover, the sorted() function sorts the keys only (something that
list() does anyway).  If you are looking for a way to have dicts with
an order of keys (and you don’t need that most of the time), look at
collection.OrderedDict.

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