[Python-ideas] `OrderedDict.items().__getitem__`

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Jan 12 00:24:47 CET 2014


On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is pretty inefficient. As for getting the last item, however, I think
> something like that might end up the best.
>

For getting the last item, reversed() should be as fast as iter() is
for getting the first - at least in CPython 3.4, which is what I was
looking at.

> And, you've gotta admit, it isn't bad for a 30-second solution with no real
> planning whatsoever.

There is that :)

ChrisA


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