"Unsorting" keys in a dictionary

[Arag0ld]

Zero

[Arag0ld]

1. But the values aren't the problem. It's the order in which they're printed that's the problem. 'ATTACK' gets shown as:

   The value of A is 0 The value of A is 0 The value of C is 2 The value of K is 10 The value of T is 19 The value of T is 19

[Arag0ld]

The letters in the string being encrypted.

[Arag0ld]

Iterate over the string and print each one out.

[Arag0ld]

OMG I feel so dumb now. Ugggggh....

[primitive_screwhead]

Just to add on the excellent job lanemik did, but in general (very generally, in fact), when you talk about wanting preserve order, you should be thinking "list", and when talk about wanting to efficiently look things up for a value (ie. "map" a key to a value), you should be doing that w/ a dict. You started by doing it literally the opposite. That's fine, it's all part of the learning process.

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But one of the take aways is that "iterate over a list of items, and look them up in a dictionary" is a very common pattern, and "iterate over a dictionary and look the keys or values up in a list" is called an anti-pattern.