Reorder dictionary in python according to a list of values

Question

Let us consider a dictionary:

sample_dict={1:\'r099\',2:\'g444\',3:\'t555\',4:\'f444\',5:\'h666\'}

I want to re-order this dictionary in an

Answer 1

Use SortedDict provided by django (from django.utils.datastructures import SortedDict). SortedDict stores it's order in keyOrder attribute (which is just a list, so you can reorder it any way you like, anytime).

If you don't have django installed or have no use for django, just lift the implementation django.utils.datatstructures. It doesn't depend on any other parts of django.