Question

hi im doing a loop so i could get dict of data, but since its a dict it’s
sorting alphabetical and not as i push it trought the loop …

is it possible to somehow turn off alphabetical sorting?

here is how do i do that

data = {}
for item in container:
  data[item] = {}
  ...
  for key, val in item_container.iteritems():
    ...
    data[item][key] = val

whitch give me something like this

data = {
  A : { K1 : V1, K2 : V2, K3 : V3 },
  B : { K1 : V1, K2 : V2, K3 : V3 },
  C : { K1 : V1, K2 : V2, K3 : V3 }
}

and i want it to be as i was going throught the loop, e.g.

data = {
  B : {K2 : V2, K3 : V3, K1 : V1},
  A : {K1 : V1, K2 : V2, K3 : V3},
  C : {K3 : V3, K1 : V1, K2 : V2}
}

Answer 1

If you really need to use a dictionary and not a list, take a look at the new OrderedDict (Python 3.1, soon to be available in Python 2.7, too). This will preserve the order in which its items were added.

from collections import OrderedDict
data = OrderedDict()
for item in container:
  data[item] = OrderedDict()
  ...
  for key, val in item_container.iteritems():
    ...
    data[item][key] = val