Python orderedDict
An OrderedDict is a dictionary subclass that remembers the order that keys were first inserted. The only difference between dict() and OrderedDict() is that:
OrderedDict preserves the order in which the keys are inserted. A regular dict doesn’t track the insertion order, and iterating it gives the values in an arbitrary order. By contrast, the order the items are inserted is remembered by OrderedDict.
Example 1:
# A Python program to demonstrate working of OrderedDict
from collections import OrderedDict
print("This is a Dict:\n")
d = {}
d['a'] = 1
d['b'] = 2
d['c'] = 3
d['d'] = 4
for key, value in d.items():
print(key, value)
print("\nThis is an Ordered Dict:\n")
od = OrderedDict()
od['a'] = 1
od['b'] = 2
od['c'] = 3
od['d'] = 4
for key, value in od.items():
print(key, value)
Output:
('a', 1)
('c', 3)
('b', 2)
('d', 4)
This is an Ordered Dict:
('a', 1)
('b', 2)
('c', 3)
('d', 4)
Important Points:
Key value Change: If the value of a certain key is changed, the position of the key remains unchanged in OrderedDict.
import collections
print("dict:")
d1 = {}
d1['a'] = 'A'
d1['b'] = 'B'
d1['c'] = 'C'
d1['d'] = 'D'
d1['e'] = 'E'
d2 = {}
d2['e'] = 'E'
d2['d'] = 'D'
d2['c'] = 'C'
d2['b'] = 'B'
d2['a'] = 'A'
if d1 == d2:
print("True")
else:
print("False")
print("Ordered Dic:")
d1 = collections.OrderedDict()
d1['a'] = 'A'
d1['b'] = 'B'
d1['c'] = 'C'
d1['d'] = 'D'
d1['e'] = 'E'
d2 = collections.OrderedDict()
d2['e'] = 'E'
d2['d'] = 'D'
d2['c'] = 'C'
d2['b'] = 'B'
d2['a'] = 'A'
if d1 == d2:
print("True")
else:
print("False")
dict:
True
Ordered Dic:
False
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