diff --git a/Objects/dictobject.c b/Objects/dictobject.c
index b1f11b3e69..4e5a48f8d5 100644
--- a/Objects/dictobject.c
+++ b/Objects/dictobject.c
@@ -4107,6 +4107,73 @@ dictview_len(_PyDictViewObject *dv)
     return len;
 }
 
+
+PyObject * _dictview_getitem_ma_unsafe(_PyDictViewObject *dv, size_t index) {
+    PyObject *result;
+    PyDictObject *dict = dv->dv_dict;
+
+    if (PyDictKeys_Check(dv)) {
+        result = DK_ENTRIES(dict->ma_keys)[index].me_key;
+        Py_INCREF(result);
+    }
+    else if (PyDictValues_Check(dv)) 
+    {
+        result = dict->ma_values[index];
+        Py_INCREF(result);
+    } else {
+        result = PyTuple_New(2);
+        PyTuple_SetItem(result, 0, DK_ENTRIES(dict->ma_keys)[index].me_key);
+        PyTuple_SetItem(result, 1, dict->ma_values[index]);
+    }
+    return result;
+}
+
+static PyObject *dv_indexerr = NULL;
+
+PyObject * dictview_getitem(_PyDictViewObject *dv, Py_ssize_t index)
+{
+    PyObject *result;
+    PyDictObject *dict = dv->dv_dict;
+
+    if ((size_t) index >= (size_t) dict->ma_used) {
+        if (dv_indexerr == NULL) {
+            dv_indexerr = PyUnicode_FromString(
+                "index out of range");
+            if (dv_indexerr == NULL)
+                return NULL;
+        }
+        PyErr_SetObject(PyExc_IndexError, dv_indexerr);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    if (_PyDict_HasSplitTable(dict)) {
+        return _dictview_getitem_ma_unsafe(dv, index);
+    }
+
+    PyDictKeyEntry *entry_ptr = DK_ENTRIES(dict->ma_keys);
+    while(index) {
+        if (entry_ptr != NULL) {
+            index--;
+        }
+        entry_ptr++;
+    }
+
+    if (PyDictKeys_Check(dv)) {
+        result = entry_ptr->me_key;
+        Py_INCREF(result);
+    }
+    else if (PyDictValues_Check(dv)) 
+    {
+        result = entry_ptr->me_value;
+        Py_INCREF(result);
+    } else {
+        result = PyTuple_New(2);
+        PyTuple_SetItem(result, 0, entry_ptr->me_key);
+        PyTuple_SetItem(result, 1, entry_ptr->me_value);
+    }
+    return result;
+}
+
 PyObject *
 _PyDictView_New(PyObject *dict, PyTypeObject *type)
 {
@@ -4287,7 +4354,7 @@ static PySequenceMethods dictkeys_as_sequence = {
     (lenfunc)dictview_len,              /* sq_length */
     0,                                  /* sq_concat */
     0,                                  /* sq_repeat */
-    0,                                  /* sq_item */
+    (ssizeargfunc)dictview_getitem,     /* sq_item */
     0,                                  /* sq_slice */
     0,                                  /* sq_ass_item */
     0,                                  /* sq_ass_slice */