Re: Whats the point of having dicts in templates if one cannot access them by key?

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:40:20 -0800 (PST), Juan Pablo Tamayo
<jtamayoh@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.django.user:

> Let me explain, I have a nested dictionary like:

<snip>

> But, whats the point of using dicts if I have to access the values in
> whatever order the <Dict>.items() gives me the keys and values?
>

By DEFINITION a dictionary is UNORDERED.

> What if I need to access these values in a specified order? (for the outer
> dict AND the inner ones)
>
> Is there a way to access a two-dimensional container IN AN PRE-SPECIFIED
> ORDER?
>
Uhm, convert it into a sorted list of sorted lists?
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