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Re: Please help on this sorted function

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On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:25 AM, fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am still new to Python. How to get the sorted dictionary output:
>
> {1: 'D', 2: 'B', 3: 'A', 4: 'E', 5: 'B'}

Since dictionaries don't actually have any sort of order to them, the
best thing to do is usually to simply display it in order. And there's
a very handy function for doing that: a pretty-printer.

>>> import pprint
>>> pprint.pprint({1: 'D', 2: 'B', 5: 'B', 4: 'E', 3: 'A'})
{1: 'D', 2: 'B', 3: 'A', 4: 'E', 5: 'B'}

This one comes with Python, so you can use it as easily as that above
example. Or you could do it this way:

>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> pprint({1: 'D', 2: 'B', 5: 'B', 4: 'E', 3: 'A'})
{1: 'D', 2: 'B', 3: 'A', 4: 'E', 5: 'B'}

For a lot of Python data structures, this will give you a tidy and
human-readable display.

ChrisA

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Please help on this sorted function fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2015-06-02 13:20 -0700
  Re: Please help on this sorted function fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2015-06-02 13:25 -0700
    Re: Please help on this sorted function Joonas Liik <liik.joonas@gmail.com> - 2015-06-02 23:42 +0300
      Re: Please help on this sorted function Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-03 18:21 +1000
    Re: Please help on this sorted function Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-03 10:01 +1000
  Re: Please help on this sorted function Joonas Liik <liik.joonas@gmail.com> - 2015-06-02 23:32 +0300
  Re: Please help on this sorted function Gary Herron <gherron@digipen.edu> - 2015-06-02 14:00 -0700

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