In Python, how do I iterate over a dictionary in sorted key order?

Question

There\'s an existing function that ends in the following, where d is a dictionary:

return d.iteritems()

that returns an unsort

Answer 1

You can now use OrderedDict in Python 2.7 as well:

>>> from collections import OrderedDict
>>> d = OrderedDict([('first', 1),
...                  ('second', 2),
...                  ('third', 3)])
>>> d.items()
[('first', 1), ('second', 2), ('third', 3)]

Here you have the what's new page for 2.7 version and the OrderedDict API.