[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello: > I have next dictionaries: > a={'a':0, 'b':1, 'c':2, 'd':3} > b={'a':0, 'c':1, 'd':2, 'e':3} > I want to put in a new dictionary named c all the keys that are in b > and re-sequence the values. The result I want is: > c={'a':0, 'c':1, 'd':2} > How can I do this with one line of instruction? > You can't. Dictionaries aren't ordered collections.
> I attempted the next but the output is not the expected: > c=dict([(k,v) for v,k in enumerate(a) if b.has_key(k)]) > erroneously (for me) gets: > {'a': 0, 'c': 2, 'd': 3} > > Thanks for your help. > In Python {'a':0, 'c':1, 'd':2} == {'a': 0, 'c': 2, 'd': 3} Sounds like you want an ordered dictionary. Several people have implemented such a beast, but I have never felt the need for one. Alternatively, perhaps the ordering of the elements isn't really important. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list