Pandas Write to Excel rearranging columns based on alphabetic order

Question

I have a python dict that has the format

dict = {
        D:""
        B:""
        A:""
        C:""
}

However, when I write this dict to a csv file in excel, the columns are rearranged to

A B C D

How do I keep the order of my dict in python when I write to excel?

    writer = pd.ExcelWriter('list_of_detected_words.xlsx', engine='xlsxwriter')
    list_of_detected_words = pd.DataFrame.from_records(form_info)
    list_of_detected_words.to_excel(writer, "Sheet1",startrow=1)

Above is the code that writes to excel.

Answer 1

Contrary to what was mentioned above, the pandas.DataFrame.to_excel() function has a parameter that lets you set which order columns are written to your excel sheet. The parameter is

 columns=[listOfColumns]

For my example above I would do

list_of_detected_words.to_excel(writer, "Sheet1", startrow=1, columns=[D,B,A,C] )

Documentation can be found on the following link.

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.to_excel.html