[Tutor] Why is an OrderedDict not sliceable?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 24/01/2016 20:23, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
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> I appear to have confused the terms "sorted" and "ordered" (see the email I just sent to Mark Lawrence).  My OrderedDict was sorted on its keys, because I defined the dict using the result of an SQL query that ended with ORDER BY <names of dict keys here>. So in that case I needed a kind of "chameleon" datatype: both a mapping and an indexing type [1]
> [1] https://docs.python.org/2/reference/datamodel.html#object.__getitem__
>

Can you use one of the containers here 
http://www.grantjenks.com/docs/sortedcontainers/ ?

If yes it's as simple as:-

pip install sortedcontainers

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