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Access dictionary in order?

Roy Smith roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu
Sun Jul 25 13:00:36 EDT 1999 
I've got a dictionary of items which I will sometimes want random access
to, but sometimes I'll want to be able to step through the items in a
fixed order as well.  Any good way to do that?

The best I've come up with so far is to keep a parallel list of the
dictionary keys in sorted order and use that to step through when I need
to:

   for key in keylist:
      do_stuff (dict[key])

which will work, but seems kind of clumsy.  Anything smoother I can do?
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