Accessing items in an collections.OrderedDict by index

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If its an OrderedDict() you can easily access the elements by indexing by getting the tuples of (key,value) pairs as follows

>>> import collections
>>> d = collections.OrderedDict()
>>> d['foo'] = 'python'
>>> d['bar'] = 'spam'
>>> d.items()
[('foo', 'python'), ('bar', 'spam')]
>>> d.items()[0]
('foo', 'python')
>>> d.items()[1]
('bar', 'spam')

Note for Python 3.X

dict.items would return an iterable dict view object rather than a list. We need to wrap the call onto a list in order to make the indexing possible

>>> items = list(d.items())
>>> items
[('foo', 'python'), ('bar', 'spam')]
>>> items[0]
('foo', 'python')
>>> items[1]
('bar', 'spam')

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