[Python-ideas] Re: Access (ordered) dict by index; insert slice

Christopher Barker writes:

from itertools import islice

smaller_dict = dict(islice(large_dict.items(), 0, 255))

which works, and isn't doing an unnecessary copying but it's pretty darn ugly, as far as I'm concerned.

In your application, I think that's just pretty, myself. The only thing that's missing is slice notation. But that's probably not hard to implement in terms of the islice function, just completely redundant.