On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > Depending on what exactly you need, it's probably worth just using a > dict. In what ways do you need it to function as a list? You can > always iterate over sorted(some_dict.keys()) if you need to run > through them in order.
FWIW, sorting inside a loop is rarely a good idea, unless your lists are pretty small. For that, there are many tree datastructures available. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list