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Access dictionary in order?

Wolfgang Grafen wolfgang.grafen at de.bosch.com
Tue Jul 27 08:48:15 EDT 1999 
Roy Smith wrote:
> 
> 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?

Look here:
Probably seqdict is best for you. Look at

http://www.germany.net/teilnehmer/100,366919/Python/Modules/Modules.html

from seqdict import seqdict
dict = seqdict()
.
.
.
for key,value in dict.items():
  do_stuff(key,value)

I think this works for you. But seqdict and mseqdict brings much, much
more
new operations on sequential dictionaries. Tell me what your think.

Wolfgang
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