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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

You're reading from   Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja Over 70 recipes that uncover powerful programming tactics in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788294874
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cody Jackson Cody Jackson
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Preface 1. Working with Python Modules FREE CHAPTER 2. Utilizing the Python Interpreter 3. Working with Decorators 4. Using Python Collections 5. Generators, Coroutines, and Parallel Processing 6. Working with Python's Math Module 7. Improving Python Performance with PyPy 8. Python Enhancement Proposals 9. Documenting with LyX 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing OrderedDict


Like Counter, the OrderedDict is a dictionary subclass the doesn't randomize the order of dictionary items. As items are added to the OrderedDict, it remembers the order that the keys were inserted and maintains that order. Even if a new entry overwrites an existing key, the position within the dictionary doesn't change. However, if an entry is deleted, re-inserting it will place it at the end of the dictionary.

OrderedDict, being a subclasses of dict, inherit all the methods available to dictionaries. There are also three special methods available to OrderedDict:

  • popitem(last=True): It returns and removes the key:value pair at the end of the dictionary. If last is not provided or manually set to True, then the popped value is LIFO (last in, first out). If last is set to False, then the popped value is FIFO.

  • move_to_end(key, last=True): It moves the provided key to the end of the dictionary. If last is set to True, then the key moves to the right. If last is set to...

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