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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-01-29 14:53:30 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-01-29 14:53:30 (GMT)
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Revise cheeseshop example so that the order of the keyword output is
completely determined by the example; dict insertion order and the string hash algorithm no longer affect the output. This fixes SF bug #509281.
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@@ -1485,7 +1485,9 @@ def cheeseshop(kind, *arguments, **keywords):
print "-- I'm sorry, we're all out of", kind
for arg in arguments: print arg
print '-'*40
- for kw in keywords.keys(): print kw, ':', keywords[kw]
+ keys = keywords.keys()
+ keys.sort()
+ for kw in keys: print kw, ':', keywords[kw]
\end{verbatim}
It could be called like this:
@@ -1511,6 +1513,11 @@ shopkeeper : Michael Palin
sketch : Cheese Shop Sketch
\end{verbatim}
+Note that the \method{sort()} method of the list of keyword argument
+names is called before printing the contents of the \code{keywords}
+dictionary; if this is not done, the order in which the arguments are
+printed is undefined.
+
\subsection{Arbitrary Argument Lists \label{arbitraryArgs}}