Getting the keys and values of a dictionary in the original order as a list

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Hello,

You can use from collections import OrderedDict or wait for Python 3.7 to come to Rhino (maybe never…) 8.3. collections — High-performance container datatypes — Python 2.7.18 documentation

And please don’t use list and dict as variable names because you are overwriting the builtin names :wink:

from collections import OrderedDict

my_dict = OrderedDict([("1","a"),("2","b"),("3","c")])
my_dict["4"] = "d"

print my_dict
print my_dict.keys()

Yields:

OrderedDict([(‘1’, ‘a’), (‘2’, ‘b’), (‘3’, ‘c’), (‘4’, ‘d’)])
[‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’]

Have a great week!

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