how to order dictionary python (sorting)

Question

I use Python dictionary:

>>> a = {}
>>> a[\"w\"] = {}
>>> a[\"a\"] = {}
>>> a[\"s\"] = {}
>>> a
{\'a\': {}, \'s\         


        

Answer 1

you should use OrderedDict instead of Dict.

http://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html

Answer 2

http://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html#collections.OrderedDict

An OrderedDict is a dict that remembers the order that keys were first inserted. If a new entry overwrites an existing entry, the original insertion position is left unchanged. Deleting an entry and reinserting it will move it to the end.

>>> import collections
>>> a = collections.OrderedDict()
>>> a['w'] = {}
>>> a['a'] = {}
>>> a['s'] = {}
>>> a
OrderedDict([('w', {}), ('a', {}), ('s', {})])
>>> dict(a)
{'a': {}, 's': {}, 'w': {}}