The only thing about dictionary ordering you can rely on is that the order will remain the same if there are no modifications to the dictionary; e.g., iterating over a dictionary twice without modifying it will result in the same sequence of keys. However, though the order of Python dictionaries is deterministic, it can be influenced by factors such as the order of insertions and removals, so equal dictionaries can end up with different orderings:
>>> {1: 0, 2: 0}, {2: 0, 1: 0}
({1: 0, 2: 0}, {1: 0, 2: 0})
>>> {1: 0, 9: 0}, {9: 0, 1: 0}
({1: 0, 9: 0}, {9: 0, 1: 0})
