On Wed, Mar 30, 2016, at 10:34 PM, tdspe...@gmail.com wrote: > as you can see the option element was added third but is the first one > displayed. > > Is this just standard - I am using Python 3.5
The order of items in dictionaries is based on the hash value -- which while stable, should be considered random and not reliable. If you want to maintain insertion order, consider using an OrderedDict: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/collections.html#collections.OrderedDict -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
