>>  I doubt there are many uses at all for dict.keys() -- most uses can
jsut use the dict.

> >
> > I use key() all the time to sort the keys before printing.
> >
> > for name in sorted(dict.key()):
> >     print(name, dict[name)
>
> Why not just use sorted(dict)?


Thanks for so nicely making my point :-)

Though I do like the keys() version: it seems more obvious to me.

-CHB


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