Python OrderedDict Tutorial (and a 'Random' Example)

Here's a much more lightweight tutorial this time, just converting an ordinary Python dict into an OrderedDict from the collections package.

[franktorchia]

Nice video, but holy crap the beginning nearly blew out my eardrums

[krishnapodakula]

can any one help me with out using built in functions can we write a code for ascending or descending order of dictionary based by values

[riderblack]

I am confused still about the use of OrderedDict, because I can always use sorted to sort a list, why OrderedDict then?