Re: Ordering in the printout of a dictionary

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On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Marc Christiansen
<usenetmail@solar-empire.de> wrote:
> I would say using pprint.pprint is even easier and it works with your
> failing example:
>
>>>> pprint.pprint({True:1,"Hello":2})
> {True: 1, 'Hello': 2}
>

True. I could try to say that I prefer to offer the simpler approach
rather than encourage people to automatically reach for the nearest
hammer and hope it's right, but the fact is... I completely forgot
about pprint :)

ChrisA

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Ordering in the printout of a dictionary Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2014-03-18 01:32 +0100
  Re: Ordering in the printout of a dictionary Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-18 11:48 +1100
    Re: Ordering in the printout of a dictionary John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-03-18 02:56 +0000
    Re: Ordering in the printout of a dictionary Marc Christiansen <usenetmail@solar-empire.de> - 2014-03-18 08:36 +0100
      Re: Ordering in the printout of a dictionary Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-18 18:55 +1100

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