OrderedDict for older versions of python

Question

Ordered dictionaries are extremely useful structures, but unfortunately these are quite recent only working in versions from 3.1 and 2.7. How can I use an ordered dictionary

Answer 1

in python2.6 gave to me:

$ pip install ordereddict
  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement from (from versions:)
No matching distribution found for from

but

$ easy_install ordereddict
install_dir /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
Searching for ordereddict
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/ordereddict/
Best match: ordereddict 1.1
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/o/ordereddict/ordereddict-1.1.tar.gz#md5=a0ed854ee442051b249bfad0f638bbec
Processing ordereddict-1.1.tar.gz
Running ordereddict-1.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-lYgPE3/ordereddict-1.1/egg-dist-tmp-GF2v6g
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
Adding ordereddict 1.1 to easy-install.pth file

Installed /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/ordereddict-1.1-py2.6.egg
Processing dependencies for ordereddict
Finished processing dependencies for ordereddict

did.