[Tutor] Why is an OrderedDict not sliceable?

[Alan Gauld]

On 22/01/16 00:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Also, you have a problem -- what happens if the incomplete postcode is 
> missing the first digit? (I suppose for that case, you just have to do a 
> slow linear search.) 

Which is why a different solution may be better suited.
What about an in-memory SQLite table? Then you can use
a LIKE based select and let the library do the hard work.

Just a thought.

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