Accessing items in an collections.OrderedDict by index

Question

Lets say I have the following code:

import collections
d = collections.OrderedDict()
d[\'foo\'] = \'python\'
d[\'bar\'] = \'spam\'

Is there

Answer 1

If you have pandas installed, you can convert the ordered dict to a pandas Series. This will allow random access to the dictionary elements.

>>> import collections
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> d = collections.OrderedDict()
>>> d['foo'] = 'python'
>>> d['bar'] = 'spam'

>>> s = pd.Series(d)

>>> s['bar']
spam
>>> s.iloc[1]
spam
>>> s.index[1]
bar