Today I was trying to use collections.OrderedDict to manage a LIFO queue, and I was surprised to realize that OrderedDict doesn't provide a way to look at its first or last item. There is an OrderedDict.popitem() method, which removes and returns either the first or last item, but it's not hard to imagine cases where you would want to see what's on the queue without popping it right away. My proposal is to add a peekitem() method to OrderedDict. This method would have the same signature and would return the same thing as popitem(), it just wouldn't modify the data structure. -Kale P.S. There is already a way to peek at the last item an OrderedDict, but it hides the intent of the code and you wouldn't think of it if you weren't familiar with python: next(reversed(ordered_dict))