Last element in OrderedDict

Question

I have od of type OrderedDict. I want to access its most recently added (key, value) pair. od.popitem(last = True) would do it, but would

Answer 1

God, I wish this was all built-in functionality...

Here's something to save you precious time. Tested in Python 3.7. od is your OrderedDict.

# Get first key
next(iter(od))

# Get last key
next(reversed(od))

# Get first value
od[next(iter(od))]

# Get last value
od[next(reversed(od))]

# Get first key-value tuple
next(iter(od.items()))

# Get last key-value tuple
next(reversed(od.items()))