tutorial on dictionaries has error in example

[tberla]

BPO	32127
Nosy	@ericvsmith

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[tberla]

in https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html:

-----
5.5. Dictionaries
...
Here is a small example using a dictionary:

>>>
>>> tel = {'jack': 4098, 'sape': 4139}
>>> tel['guido'] = 4127
>>> tel
{'sape': 4139, 'guido': 4127, 'jack': 4098}

---

I think the order of dictionary elements shown after 'guido' is inserted is wrong.

The correct order is:
{'jack': 4098, 'sape': 4139, 'guido': 4127}

[ericvsmith]

dict makes no guarantees on ordering, so I think the example is fine. There is no "correct" ordering.

[tberla]

Thanks, Eric. (I'm new to Python.) Perhaps I should have paid closer attention to the description of the dictionary data structure --

"Performing list(d.keys()) on a dictionary returns a list of all the keys used in the dictionary, in arbitrary order"

-- rather than just jumping ahead to the code example. ;-)

[ericvsmith]

No problem. Welcome to Python!