Bryan wrote:
I am looping through a list and creating a regular dictionary. From that dict, I create an ordered dict. I can't think of a way to build the ordered dict while going through the original loop. Is there a way I can avoid creating the first unordered dict just to get the ordered dict? Also, I am using pop(k) to retrieve the values from the unordered dict while building the ordered one because I figure that as the values are removed from the unordered dict, the lookups will become faster. Is there a better idiom that the code below to create an ordered dict from an unordered list?
Why are you building a dict from a list and then an ordered dict from that? Just build the ordered dict from the list, because it's behaves like a dict, except for remembering the order in which the keys were added. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
