On 23.07.2012 13:40, Philipp Hagemeister wrote: > On 07/23/2012 01:23 PM, Henrik Faber wrote: >> With an arbitrary dictionaty d, are d.keys() and d.values() >> guaraneed to be in the same order? > > Yes. From the documentation[1]: > > If items(), keys(), values(), iteritems(), iterkeys(), and itervalues() > are called with no intervening modifications to the dictionary, the > lists will directly correspond.
Ah, nice! > In most cases, you should simply use items() though. Can you elaborate > on the use case for needing both keys() and values(), where items() is > not applicable? I need to parse and modify the keys of the dict and pass the keys as a compound object to a function, which expects the values to be passed as an argument list (weird, but can't change that). The order of arguments is arbitrary (as the iteration over a dict is), but there has to be a 1-to-1 relation bewtween the compound object's key order and the argument list's value order. Best regards, Henrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
