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Sorted dictionary (was: Alphabetized dictionary listings)

Jul 5th, 2000 10:03
Nathan Wallace, unknown unknown, Hans Nowak, Snippet 323, Jeff Epler

"""
Packages: basic_datatypes.dictionaries
"""

"""
>Why does this occur? More to the point, how can I have the print-out
>be in alphabetical order?

The FAQ gives a __repr__ method; you probably want __str__ to do the same
thing.  Here are implementations of .items() and .keys() (what do you want
for .values()?:
"""

from UserDict import UserDict

class SortedDict(UserDict):
	def keys(self):
		l = self.data.keys()
		l.sort()
		return l

	def items(self):
		l = self.data.items()
		l.sort()
		return l

names = ["Bob", "Larry", "Curly", "Moe", "Jeff", "Guido", "Parrot"]
dict  = SortedDict()

for name in names:
	dict[name] = len(name)

for i,j in dict.items():
	print "%s's name is %d letters long" % (i,j)