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  ## By default, iterating over a dict iterates over its keys.
  ## Note that the keys are in a random order.
  for key in dict: print key
  ## prints a g o
  
  ## Exactly the same as above
  for key in dict.keys(): print key

  ## Get the .keys() list:
  print dict.keys()  ## ['a', 'o', 'g']

  ## Likewise, there's a .values() list of values
  print dict.values()  ## ['alpha', 'omega', 'gamma']

  ## Common case -- loop over the keys in sorted order,
  ## accessing each key/value
  for key in sorted(dict.keys()):
    print key, dict[key]
  
  ## .items() is the dict expressed as (key, value) tuples
  print dict.items()  ##  [('a', 'alpha'), ('o', 'omega'), ('g', 'gamma')]

  ## This loop syntax accesses the whole dict by looping
  ## over the .items() tuple list, accessing one (key, value)
  ## pair on each iteration.
  for k, v in dict.items(): print k, '>', v
  ## a > alpha    o > omega     g > gamma