[Tutor] Why is an OrderedDict not sliceable?

[Ben Finney]

Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> writes:

> According to a narrow definition of indexed access. I would say that
> d[k] is index access even if d is a dict and k a key.

An index implies the ordinal position in a sequence. In a mapping, the
key is *not* referring to the position in a sequence, so is not a key.

So accessing an item in a mapping by key is not indexed access.

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