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Add sentence mentioning guaranteed output order of kwargs
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11 changes: 5 additions & 6 deletions Doc/tutorial/controlflow.rst
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Expand Up @@ -492,8 +492,7 @@ function like this::
for arg in arguments:
print(arg)
print("-" * 40)
keys = sorted(keywords.keys())
for kw in keys:
for kw in keywords:
print(kw, ":", keywords[kw])

It could be called like this::
Expand All @@ -513,13 +512,13 @@ and of course it would print:
It's very runny, sir.
It's really very, VERY runny, sir.
----------------------------------------
client : John Cleese
shopkeeper : Michael Palin
client : John Cleese
sketch : Cheese Shop Sketch

Note that the list of keyword argument names is created by sorting the result
of the keywords dictionary's ``keys()`` method before printing its contents;
if this is not done, the order in which the arguments are printed is undefined.
Note that the order in which the keyword arguments are printed is guaranteed
to match the order in which they were provided in the function call.


.. _tut-arbitraryargs:

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