[Python] coding help -- iterating over 2 arrays by individual orderings

[Rob Hudson]

Fellow Pythonistas,

I'm looking for a little Python style help.  I'm using Django to gather 
2 different types of content items.  Each item has a sequence order 
associated with it.  For reasons associated with how the data model is 
laid out, I can't combine these queries into a single one.

So I have an array of text items and an array of media items.

I want to iterate over them in the order specified by text.item.sequence 
and media.item.sequence.  Individually text is sorted by sequence and so 
is media.

One thought was to throw them in a dict with the sequence being the key 
and the object being the value and iterate using a key sort.  But if the 
content teams goof and input duplicate sequence items content gets lost.

Another thought was to iterate and check if text.item.sequence is 
greater than media.item.sequence and pull which ever one is lower.

That seems ok to me but I'm thinking this is a common enough thing that 
there's probably a Pythonic way of doing it that I'm not aware of.  Is 
there?  :)

Thanks,
Rob