diff --git a/dash/development/_r_components_generation.py b/dash/development/_r_components_generation.py
index 13a57af381..621c9d151e 100644
--- a/dash/development/_r_components_generation.py
+++ b/dash/development/_r_components_generation.py
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
         )
 
     component$props <- filter_null(component$props)
-    
-    structure(component, class = c('dash_component', 'list'))    
+
+    structure(component, class = c('dash_component', 'list'))
 }}'''  # noqa:E501
 
 # the following strings represent all the elements in an object
diff --git a/dash/development/component_generator.py b/dash/development/component_generator.py
index 31f9d1ce9a..99c19051a0 100644
--- a/dash/development/component_generator.py
+++ b/dash/development/component_generator.py
@@ -146,11 +146,13 @@ def cli():
 # pylint: disable=undefined-variable
 def byteify(input_object):
     if isinstance(input_object, dict):
-        return {byteify(key): byteify(value)
-                for key, value in input_object.iteritems()}
+        return OrderedDict([
+            (byteify(key), byteify(value))
+            for key, value in input_object.iteritems()
+        ])
     elif isinstance(input_object, list):
         return [byteify(element) for element in input_object]
-    elif isinstance(input_object, unicode): # noqa:F821
+    elif isinstance(input_object, unicode):  # noqa:F821
         return input_object.encode('utf-8')
     return input_object
 
diff --git a/tests/development/test_base_component.py b/tests/development/test_base_component.py
index 1fcfa06f9c..a19768a3dc 100644
--- a/tests/development/test_base_component.py
+++ b/tests/development/test_base_component.py
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ def test_set_item_with_nested_children(self):
 
         c3b = Component(id='3')
         self.assertEqual(c5['3'], c3)
-        self.assertTrue(c5['3'] is not '3')
+        self.assertTrue(c5['3'] != '3')
         self.assertTrue(c5['3'] is not c3b)
 
         c5['3'] = c3b