java and python equivalent of php's foreach($a

Question

In php, one can handle a list of state names and their abbreviations with an associative array like this:

<?php
    $stateArray = array(
        "ALABAMA"=>"AL",
        "ALASKA"=>"AK",
        // etc...
        "WYOMING"=>"WY"
    );

    foreach ($stateArray as $stateName => $stateAbbreviation){
        print "The abbreviation for $stateName is $stateAbbreviation.\n\n";
    }
?>

Output (with key order preserved):

The abbreviation for ALABAMA is AL.

The abbreviation for ALASKA is AK.

The abbreviation for WYOMING is WY.

EDIT: Note that the order of array elements is preserved in the output of the php version. The Java implementation, using a HashMap, does not guarantee the order of elements. Nor does the dictionary in Python.

How is this done in java and python? I only find approaches that supply the value, given the key, like python's:

stateDict = {
    "ALASKA": "AK",
    "WYOMING": "WY",
}

for key in stateDict:
    value = stateDict[key]

---

EDIT: based on the answers, this was my solution in python,

# a list of two-tuples
stateList = [
    ('ALABAMA', 'AL'),
    ('ALASKA', 'AK'),
    ('WISCONSIN', 'WI'),
    ('WYOMING', 'WY'),
]

for name, abbreviation in stateList:
    print name, abbreviation

Output:

ALABAMA AL
ALASKA AK
WISCONSIN WI
WYOMING WY

Which is exactly what was required.

Answer 1

Also, to maintain insertion order, you can use a LinkedHashMap instead of a HashMap.

Answer 2

This is the modified code from o948 where you use a TreeMap instead of a HashMap. The Tree map will preserve the ordering of the keys by the key.

import java.util.*;

class Foo
{
 public static void main(String[] args)
 {
    Map<String, String> stateMap = new TreeMap<String, String>();
    stateMap.put("ALABAMA", "AL");
    stateMap.put("ALASKA", "AK");
    // ...
    stateMap.put("WYOMING", "WY");

    for (Map.Entry<String, String> state : stateMap.entrySet()) {
             System.out.printf(
                    "The abbreviation for %s is %s%n",
                    state.getKey(),
                    state.getValue()
            );
      }
    }
 }