code: def _getSortedString(o):
  	
  	# todo: replace this with something like pprint on Python upgrade
  	# We assume here that any container type is either list or tuple which may not always hold
  	if isinstance(o, (dict)):
  		pkeys = sorted(o.keys(), key=_lowercaseToStr)
  		l = []
  		for k in pkeys:
  			l.append(str(k) + ":" + _getSortedString(o[k]))
  		return "{" + join(l, ",") + "}"
  	else:
  		return str(o)
docs: Returns a string describing o, sorting the contents (case-insensitive on keys) if o is a dict.