Chris Green writes:
> I have a fairly simple application that populates a GUI window with
> fields from a database table. The fields are defined/configured by a
> dictionary as follows:-
>
> #
> #
> # Address Book field details, dictionary key is the database column
> #
> dbcol = {}
> dbcol['firstname'] = col('First Name', True, False)
> dbcol['lastname'] = col('Last Name', True, False)
> dbcol['email'] = col('E-Mail', True, True)
> dbcol['phone'] = col('Phone', True, True)
> dbcol['mobile'] = col('Mobile', True, True)
> dbcol['address'] = col('Address', True, False)
> dbcol['town'] = col('Town/City', True, False)
> dbcol['county'] = col('County/Region', True, False)
> dbcol['postcode'] = col('PostCode', True, False)
> dbcol['country'] = col('Country', True, False)
> dbcol['notes'] = col('Notes', True, False)
> dbcol['www'] = col('Web Page', True, True)
> dbcol['categories'] = col('Categories', True, True)
>
> How can I get the fields in the GUI window in the order I want rather
> than the fairly random order that they appear in at the moment?
Look up OrderedDict in the collections module.
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