Gnarlodious <gnarlodi...@gmail.com> writes:
> from plistlib import readPlist
> dict=readPlist('/path/file.plist')
> --> arbitrarily ordered dictionary compared to the XML file
Right. The items in a dict are unordered, and when serialised to a list
they will appear in an arbitrary, unpredictable order.
>>> foo = dict(
... [('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3), ('d', 4), ('e', 5)])
>>> foo
{'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'b': 2, 'e': 5, 'd': 4}
> from collections import OrderedDict
> OrderedDict(readPlist('/path/file.plist'))
> --> essentially does the same thing as the previous
Yes, because you are initialising an OrderedDict instance from a dict.
That accesses the dict items as an iterable, which of course is going to
retrieve the items in an arbitrary, unpredictable order.
>>> foo.items()
dict_items([('a', 1), ('c', 3), ('b', 2), ('e', 5), ('d', 4)])
The OrderedDict then faithfully remembers the arbitrary ordering of the
items.
>>> from collections import OrderedDict
>>> OrderedDict(foo.items())
OrderedDict([('a', 1), ('c', 3), ('b', 2), ('e', 5), ('d', 4)])
> readPlist seems to do the scrambling
Nothing “does” the scrambling; the order is forgotten by the dict as
soon as the items go in.
> I "upgraded" to Py3 to have OrderedDict, so please don't say it is
> impossible...
What you'll need to do is insert the items into the OrderedDict instance
in the desired order. You will, of course, need to define what that
desired order is.
>>> sorted(foo.items(), key=(lambda item: item[0]))
[('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3), ('d', 4), ('e', 5)]
>>> OrderedDict(sorted(foo.items(), key=(lambda item: item[0])))
OrderedDict([('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3), ('d', 4), ('e', 5)])
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