[Tutor] Why is an OrderedDict not sliceable?

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Hi,

Like the subject says: Why is an OrderedDict not sliceable? (From the collections library). Was that an intentional omission, or a mistake? [1]

Background: I do not use OrderedDict very often, but I thought I could use it to look up street and city names using postcodes ([0-9]{4} [a-z]{2} format). I needed it to be ordered because I also wanted to be able to use bisect, which is needed when the postcode letters are missing. In short: a fast dict lookup for complete postcodes and less fast bisect lookup for in complete postcodes.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30975339/slicing-a-python-ordereddict

Thanks!

Albert-Jan