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Tue Oct 21 19:53:01 EDT 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/039236.html

> From: Greg Ewing [mailto:greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz]
> 
> Maybe dicts should have a .sortedkeys() method? The specialised
> method name would help stave off any temptation to add varied sort
> methods to other types.

-1.

I think that:

    d = {1: 2, 3: 4}

    for i in list.sorted(d):
        print i

or

    d = {1: 2, 3: 4}

    for i in list.sorted(d.iterkeys()):
        print i

looks very clean and unambiguous. And is even better at staving off temptation to add varied sort methods to other types.

Tim Delaney

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