>>>> But you need to have an order that will work with sorted(). > Its not just the order you add items to the dict. To store an > arbitrary order I suspect you would need to maintain a > secondary list with the keys in the order of insertion. > The most reliable way to dop that would be to subclass > dict. Somebody may already have done that so its worth > a google... > > HTH, >
Alan, can you give a short snippet of what that would look like? I was trying to code out some idea of how you'd retain insertion order using another dict or a list and didn't get anywhere.
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