[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You cannot rely on the elements of a dictionary being in any
particular order (dicts are internally hash tables), so the above
is almost certainly ont what you want.
Hi - thanks for your reply. How about if I made the dict into a list
(of
which I have done). How would I then reference the previous item?
Can they
be indexed?
Yes, I ran in a situation similar to yours, I read the content of a file,
and had to both keep the order of the lines in the original file, and create
a dictionary from the lines. So I created a class that contained both a
dictionary and a tuple containing the keys of the dictionary in the original
order. Something like this:
class mydict(object):
def __init__(self, filename):
x = [ e.strip().split() for e in file(filename) ]
self.ordered_lines = tuple([ e[0] for e in x ])
self.dictionary = dict( zip(self.ordered_lines, [ e[1:] for e in x]) )
a = mydict('/some/file')
a.ordered_lines
a.dictionary
Yves.
http://www.SollerS.ca
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