Ahh , sorry If i wasnt clear the first time. I dint mean reorder the data in dictionary. I meant resize the dictionary.
./Rahul On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com>wrote: > dictionaries are unordered. It is not a good idea to expect any order in > dictionaries, even if you are seeing some order by chance. > > If you need order, then use OrderedDict from collections module (new in > Python 2.7). > > Anand > > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Rahul R <rahul8...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey Guys, > > > > Is it possible to forcibly reorder the python dictionary after "n" number > > of inserts and deletions. As far as i know, python dictionary performs > lazy > > deletes. Thus , even if the data is deleted, python has a dummy data > their > > in order to preserve consistency. The python dictionary > > keeps expanding when the size of dict is increasing, but after deleting a > > few parameters the size does not decrease. Is there a way , where I can > > forcibly resize the dictionary ? > > > > I was thinking of copying content from existing dictionary to new dict > and > > deleting the previous one.But thats a cumbersome operation. > > > > Thanks, > > ./Rahul > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > -- > Anand > http://anandology.com/ > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
