def test_popitem(self): pairs = [('c', 1), ('b', 2), ('a', 3), ('d', 4), ('e', 5), ('f', 6)] shuffle(pairs) od = OrderedDict(pairs) while pairs: self.assertEqual(od.popitem(), pairs.pop()) self.assertRaises(KeyError, od.popitem) self.assertEqual(len(od), 0)