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question about dictionaries

When you declare a dictionary, Python puts it in a different order than
the way you declare it:
stuff = {'\n':'', '<br>:'\n'}
print stuff

{'<br>':'\n', '\n':''}

Is there a way to stop this behavior? I want to process this dictionary
in the order it's in, element by element. I'm running Python 2.3, if
that helps.

Thanks for any help!

Jan 20 '06 #1
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"Chris" <ch*********@gmail.com> writes:
Is there a way to stop this behavior? I want to process this dictionary
in the order it's in, element by element. I'm running Python 2.3, if
that helps.


You want a list not a dictionary.
Jan 20 '06 #2
Chris wrote:
Is there a way to stop this behavior? I want to process this dictionary
in the order it's in, element by element. I'm running Python 2.3, if
that helps.


As said previously, you either want a list (which are ordered), or an
ordered-dictionary (not a Python native type, see
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html)

dict datatypes do not maintain any specific order and aren't really
meant to, they're just handy, 'fast' hash lookups.

Brett

Jan 20 '06 #3

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