I made a sorted dictionary to pass through json to a javascript, however, it seems whenever I throw it into a json.dumps() it changes its order into alphabetical by keys. It is critical that I keep it in a certain order or else it will not work.
Is there a way to achieve this?
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Objects in JSON are an unordered collection of key:value pairs (same as dictionaries in Python), so you should use a different data structure if the order is relevant.
A structure like this (in JSON) would work:
{ "columns" : [ "id", "name", "age"],
"rows" : [[ "john", "John Doe", 42],
[ "jane", "Jane Miller", 28]
]
}
