Terry Reedy wrote:

I almost agree, except that the API uses the dict, not list, API.

Yes, as long as the API is dict-like, it really needs to
be thought of as a kind of dict.

Perhaps the terminology should be

  ordereddict -- what we have here

  sorteddict -- hypothetical future type that keeps
                itself sorted in key order

--
Greg
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