How to insert key-value pair into dictionary at a specified position?

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On python < 3.7 (or cpython < 3.6), you cannot control the ordering of pairs in a standard dictionary.

If you plan on performing arbitrary insertions often, my suggestion would be to use a list to store keys, and a dict to store values.

mykeys = ['Name', 'Age', 'Class']
mydict = {'Name': 'Zara', 'Age': 7, 'Class': 'First'} # order doesn't matter

k, v = 'Phone', '123-456-7890'

mykeys.insert(mykeys.index('Name')+1, k)
mydict[k] = v

for k in mykeys:
    print(f'{k} => {mydict[k]}')

# Name => Zara
# Phone => 123-456-7890
# Age => 7
# Class => First

If you plan on initialising a dictionary with ordering whose contents are not likely to change, you can use the collections.OrderedDict structure which maintains insertion order.

from collections import OrderedDict

data = [('Name', 'Zara'), ('Phone', '1234'), ('Age', 7), ('Class', 'First')] 
odict = OrderedDict(data)
odict
# OrderedDict([('Name', 'Zara'),
#              ('Phone', '1234'),
#              ('Age', 7),
#              ('Class', 'First')])

Note that OrderedDict does not support insertion at arbitrary positions (it only remembers the order in which keys are inserted into the dictionary).

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