[Python-ideas] OrderedDict.peekitem()
Kale Kundert
kale at thekunderts.net
Tue Jul 7 08:56:42 CEST 2015
I didn't even mean for this thread to be about arbitrarily indexing into an
OrderedDict. I meant for it to be about accessing the first and last items in
an OrderedDict. Given that a method already exists to access and remove these
items, I find it hard to understand why there isn't a method to simply access
them. This should be a constant-time operation if OrderedDict employs a
doubly-linked list under the hood.
-Kale
On 07/06/2015 09:23 PM, Neil Girdhar wrote:
> This thread is not about hash tables. This thread is about indexing into an
> ordered dictionary when you need an ordered dictionary. Someone pointed out
> that people expect indexing to be constant time. I agree that no one expects
> indexing to be linear time. My point was that logarithmic-time indexing is
> reasonable and possible.
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