On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Jervis Whitley <jervi...@gmail.com> wrote: > how about this: > items = [(1,'a'),(1,'b'),(2,'a'),(3,'a'), > (3,'b'),(4,'a'),(5,'a'),(5,'b'),(5,'c')] > mydict = dict(items) > items = [item for item in mydict.iteritems()]
That only coincidentally preserves order; the order of items in a dictionary is, for practical purposes, unpredictable. BTW [item for item in mydict.iteritems()] can be written as just mydict.items(). Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
