Are v6 JSON objects order independent?

[Enthalpy]

This is a question primarily for Unas, or anybody crazy enough to look at the v6 code:

I'm writing a Python package that manipulates the JSON trial_data file. I currently use Ordered Dictionaries to keep the listing of properties in the objects the same as in the editor-generated JSON. (Lists, of course, are lists.) So my package processing a blank would give the JSON as:

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{"profiles":[0],"evidence":[0],"places":[0],"sounds":[0],"music":[0],"popups":[0],"cross_examinations":[0],"scenes":[0],"scenes_aai":[0],"frames":[0],"ui":{"base":"classic","elements":[]}}

and not, say,

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{"places":[0],"popups":[0],"scenes":[0],"profiles":[0],"evidence":[0],"scenes_aai":[0],"music":[0],"cross_examinations":[0],"frames":[0],"ui":{"base":"classic","elements":[]},"sounds":[0]}

The same use of Ordered Dictionaries persists throughout the program, so the object that represents a foreground object is also stored as an Ordered Dictionary while I'm working with it in Python.

Will v6 have problems if I switch to regular dictionaries to save on memory? The data would be the same, but the order within objects changes. I know that order dependence in an object's name-value pair is terrible, but I want to make absolutely sure that Unas isn't using that for some sort of hack in the development phase.

Edit: I looked at the v6 code and then realized that nobody who codes like Unas would ever use order-dependent objects. Question answered, then.