[Python-ideas] Re: Access (ordered) dict by index; insert slice

[Barry Scott]

> On 13 Jul 2020, at 18:56, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 18:42, Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 13 Jul 2020, at 05:55, Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> well, sure, though I have to say that I think that that's an unfortunate 
>> confusing thing about python dicts. IN fact, I doubt there are many uses at 
>> all for dict.keys() -- most uses can jsut use the dict.
>> 
>> I use key() all the time to sort the keys before printing.
>> 
>> for name in sorted(dict.key()):
>>    print(name, dict[name)
> 
> Why not just use sorted(dict)?

Ooo shiny I do like that version of sorted(d).

I got curious and found that iter(d) is the same as iter(d.keys())

Barry
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