Why are there no ordered dictionaries?

[Christoph Zwerschke]

Fuzzyman schrieb:

> I'm going to add some of the sequence methods. I'm *not* going to allow
> indexing, but I will allow slicing.
> 
> You can also do d[d.keys()[i]]
> 
> This provides two ways of fetching values by index, so I don't want to
> add another.

And this would be probably faster than d.values()[i] in the usual 
implementation where values() has to be built first as Carsten noted.

-- Chris