What's the neatest way of getting dictionary entries in a specified order?

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>     dbcol['firstname'] = col('First Name', True, False)
>     dbcol['lastname'] = col('Last Name', True, False)

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

ChrisA