The order of keys in dictionaries

Question

Code:

d = {\'a\': 0, \'b\': 1, \'c\': 2}
l = d.keys()

print l

This prints [\'a\', \'c\', \'b\']. I\'m unsure of how the metho

Answer 1

From http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html:

"The keys() method of a dictionary object returns a list of all the keys used in the dictionary, in arbitrary order (if you want it sorted, just apply the sorted() function to it)."