to 1142331976. The hash code is then used to calculate a location in an
internal array where the value will be stored. Assuming that you're storing
keys that all have different hash values, this means that dictionaries take
-constant time -- O(1), in computer science notation -- to retrieve a key. It
-also means that no sorted order of the keys is maintained, and traversing the
-array as the ``.keys()`` and ``.items()`` do will output the dictionary's
-content in some arbitrary jumbled order that can change with every invocation of
-a program.
+constant time -- O(1), in computer science notation -- to retrieve a key.
Why must dictionary keys be immutable?
Dictionaries
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-How can I get a dictionary to store and display its keys in a consistent order?
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-Use :class:`collections.OrderedDict`.
-
I want to do a complicated sort: can you do a Schwartzian Transform in Python?
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