Python dictionary: are keys() and values() always the same order?

Question

It looks like the lists returned by keys() and values() methods of a dictionary are always a 1-to-1 mapping (assuming the dictionary is not altered

Answer 1

For what it's worth, some heavy used production code I have written is based on this assumption and I never had a problem with it. I know that doesn't make it true though :-)

If you don't want to take the risk I would use iteritems() if you can.

for key, value in myDictionary.iteritems():
    print key, value