On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 11:29 -0500, Robert Kern wrote: > """Never rely on the order of dictionaries and sets."""
Easy, Robert, there's a baby in that bathwater. I think it's useful to note that the arbitrary ordering returned by dict.keys() et al. is locally stable in the absence of intervening modifications, as long as the guarantee is worded in a way that prevents overly optimistic reliance on that ordering. -Carsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list