Ordering in Python (2.4) dictionary

Question

    r_dict={\'answer1\': \"value1\",\'answer11\': \"value11\",\'answer2\': \"value2\",\'answer3\': \"value3\",\'answer4\': \"value4\",}

    for i in r_dict:
        if(         


        

Answer 1

Dictionaries are unordered - that is, they do have some order, but it's influenced in nonobvious ways by the order of insertion and the hash of the keys. However, there is another implementation that remembers the order of insertion, collections.OrderedDict.

Edit: For Python 2.4, there are several third party implementations. I haven't used any, but since the one from voidspace looks promising.