An OrderedDict is a dictionary subclass that remembers the order in which its contents are added, supporting the usual dict methods.If a new entry overwrites an existing entry, the original insertion position is left unchanged. Deleting an entry and reinserting it will move it to the end.
>>> from collections import OrderedDict >>> d = {'banana': 3, 'apple':4, 'pear': 1, 'mango': 2} >>> od=OrderedDict(d.items()) >>> od OrderedDict([('banana', 3), ('apple', 4), ('pear', 1), ('mango', 2)]) >>> od=OrderedDict(sorted(d.items())) >>> od OrderedDict([('apple', 4), ('banana', 3), ('mango', 2), ('pear', 1)]) >>> t=od.popitem() >>> t ('pear', 1) >>> od=OrderedDict(d.items()) >>> t=od.popitem() >>> t ('mango', 2)