How to implement associative array (not dictionary) in Python?

Question

I trying to print out a dictionary in Python:

Dictionary = {\"Forename\":\"Paul\",\"Surname\":\"Dinh\"}
for Key,Value in Dictionary.iteritems():
  print Key,         


        

Answer 1

First of all dictionaries are not sorted at all nor by key, nor by value.

And basing on your description. You actualy need collections.OrderedDict module

from collections import OrderedDict

my_dict = OrderedDict([("Forename", "Paul"), ("Surname", "Dinh")])

for key, value in my_dict.iteritems():
    print '%s = %s' % (key, value)

Note that you need to instantiate OrderedDict from list of tuples not from another dict as dict instance will shuffle the order of items before OrderedDict will be instantiated.