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Ordered dictionaries are extremely useful structures, but unfortunately these are quite recent only working in versions from 3.1 and 2.7. How can I use an ordered dictionary in older versions?
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No it won't become redundant in Python 3.7 because OrderedDict is not just a dict that retains insertion order, it also offers an order dependent method, OrderedDict. move_to_end() , and supports reversed() iteration*.
OrderedDict is over 80% slower than the standard Python dictionary (8.6/4.7≈1.83).
Python's OrderedDict is a dict subclass that preserves the order in which key-value pairs, commonly known as items, are inserted into the dictionary. When you iterate over an OrderedDict object, items are traversed in the original order. If you update the value of an existing key, then the order remains unchanged.
The OrderedDict is a subclass of dict object in Python. The only difference between OrderedDict and dict is that, in OrderedDict, it maintains the orders of keys as inserted. In the dict, the ordering may or may not be happen. The OrderedDict is a standard library class, which is located in the collections module.
I installed ordereddict on python 2.6 with pip
pip install ordereddict According to the documentation, for Python versions 2.4 or later this code should be used. There is also some code from Raymond Hettinger, one of the contributors to the PEP. The code here is claimed to work under 2.6 and 3.0 and was made for the proposal.
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