I tried to maintain the order of a Python dictionary, since native dict doesn't have any order to it. Many answers in SE suggested using OrderedDict.

from collections import OrderedDictdomain1 = { "de": "Germany", "sk": "Slovakia", "hu": "Hungary","us": "United States", "no": "Norway"  }domain2 = OrderedDict({ "de": "Germany", "sk": "Slovakia", "hu": "Hungary","us": "United States", "no": "Norway"  })print domain1
print " "    
for key,value in domain1.iteritems():print (key,value)print " "print domain2
print ""
for key,value in domain2.iteritems():print (key,value)

After iteration, I need the dictionary to maintain its original order and print the key and values as original:

{"de": "Germany","sk": "Slovakia","hu": "Hungary","us": "United States","no": "Norway"
}

Either way I used doesn't preserve this order, though.

You need to pass it a sequence of items or insert items in order - that's how it knows the order. Try something like this:

from collections import OrderedDictdomain = OrderedDict([('de', 'Germany'),('sk', 'Slovakia'),('hu', 'Hungary'),('us', 'United States'),('no', 'Norway')])

The array has an order, so the OrderedDict will know the order you intend.