Preserve order from dictionary keys

Question

I want to extract the dictionary keys, preserving their order (CTY, LC, DIV). When I perform a list comprehension, it is automatically ordering them.

columns = [key for key in dict_columns.keys()]

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

consider using an OrderedDict to preserve the order of keys in your dict

https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/collections.html#collections.OrderedDict