Iain Duncan

It looks to me like the order of keys in a dict is safe (not the case in Python), so we can reliably iterate through a dict and always get the same order. I'm curious as to why there is no built in step-by-step iterator for dict though, as there is with coll. My question is whether treating the contents of a dict as an ordered collection is safe to do, and if so, if one has to do this by hacking up your own iterator by getting the keys with a getkeys message and keeping track of your index yourself. Or maybe I'm missing something obvious. Or maybe one should dump to coll to do this?

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Hi, I'm currently having the same issue, has someone resolved/found a workaround for this?

The items will be in the order you've written them into the dict. To be sure you could save an index with your items?

The problem is that i may have to change the index for a given key, but i know i cannot change the keys' name in a dict... Maybe a solution is to put the index as a value for every item, other than the value itself?

        "Item Name" : ["index", "value"],

        "Item Name" : ["index", "value"]

ex:
{
	"Dict Name" : 	{
		"Item Name" : ["index", "value"],
		"Item Name" : ["index", "value"],
		"Item Name" : ["index", "value"]
}
}

Yes. Or use a coll where it's easy to change the index.

Is a dict really an ordered dict? can we iter point by point?