[klyrs]

Sorry, yes, I was hasty. Ordered dicts supports such a thing with intervening modifications:

  oldkeys = list(D.keys())
  D[z] = foo(z)

now if you take

  zip(oldkeys, D.values())

then you're guaranteed to iterate over oldkeys, with the proper values associated with those keys -- if z was an oldkey, its value got updated; otherwise, it comes after oldkeys and gets dropped out of zip.

The subtlety of this is what I, and perhaps others, find the most jarring.