python get the last in dictionary
# import the right class from collections import OrderedDict # create and fill the dictionary d = OrderedDict() d['first'] = 1 d['second'] = 2 d['third'] = 3 # retrieve key/value pairs els = list(d.items()) # explicitly convert to a list, in case it's Python 3.x # get first inserted element els[0] => ('first', 1) # get last inserted element els[-1] => ('third', 3)