[TIP] dicts in doctests

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Sep 17 18:02:36 PDT 2008


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On Sep 17, 2008, at 07:43 PM, Pete wrote:

>Is there a preferred way of testing dicts in doctests?  The random key  
>ordering can be problematic (IIRC, this bit the django port to Jython).
>
> >>> dict([('x', 1), ('y', 2)])
>{'x': 1, 'y': 2}

>>> sorted(dict.items())

- -Barry
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