On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote:
> > "C M Caine" <cmca...@googlemail.com> wrote > >> That's the first I've read of iterating through dictionaries, I'd >> >> assumed it was impossible because they're unordered. >> > > Iteration doesn't require order, only to get each item once. > Even in very old Python versions you could iterate a dictionary via the > keys() method. More recently you can do it directly - although the effect is > the same. There is no guarantee of order only that you process every item > once. And of course if you want to get the items sorted you can iterate over sorted(mydict.keys()). -Wayne
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