i think this book was the first of the cookbook series.

"¥ In lieu of author royalties for the recipes, a portion of the proceeds from the book sales would 
be donated to the Python Software Foundation.  "

sort dictionary....

   items = adict.items(  ) 
    items.sort(  ) 
    return [value for key, value in items] 


    print deepindex([[1,2],[3,[4,[5,6]]],7,[8,9]], 6) 
    print deepindex([[1,2],[3,[4,[5,6]]],7,[8,9]], 66) 
    
unicode printing: 
import codecs, sys 
sys.stdout = codecs.lookup('iso8859-1')[-1](sys.stdout)