Cindy -- If you read the Python documentation, you will see that a dictionary is stored with its elements in an un-specified (and therefore unpredictable) order. When the dictionary is created, the order in which the values were specified IS NOT PRESERVED. There are numerous references to this both in the Python documentation and other web resources. Try doing a google search on 'python dictionary key order' and you will see what I mean.
If you want the values to print out in some specified order, I can think of
two ways to do that:
1. Keep another data item -- an array (which *does* preserve order) of
key-names, and use that as the value of the 'in' attribute of the <iterate>
element.
2. If you simply want them in alphabetical order or something like that,
you could add code to get the keys into a list, sort that list, and then
use the sorted list as the value to iterate over.
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[staf-users] Iterating a dictionary
in a STAX job
Hi,
I have the following STAX job to iterate a dictionary and print out the
keys in the dictionary.
<script>
testsWin = {'Harmony':0,'DeclinePlus':0, 'Harmony1':0,
'RTA':0}
</script>
<defaultcall function="main" />
<function name="main" scope="local">
<sequence>
<iterate var="test" in="testsWin.keys()">
<log message="1">'test=%s' % test</log>
</iterate>
</sequence>
</function>
The log message shows in this order: Harmony1, DeclinePlus, RTA, Harmony.
Is there a way to make the print out(message) has the same key order as
that in variable testsWin?
Thanks,
Cindy
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