From 67e340e5b5a792c6a098c2c52cd4feb2353b2346 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: machines-6657 <machines-6657@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2026 17:13:15 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix Box.popitem LIFO order

---
 AUTHORS.rst      | 1 +
 CHANGES.rst      | 5 +++++
 box/box.py       | 2 +-
 test/test_box.py | 3 ++-
 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index 6b44851..96bfe3b 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Code contributions:
 - Jesper Schlegel (jesperschlegel)
 - J vanBemmel (jbemmel)
 - m-janicki
+- machines-6657 (machines-6657)
 
 
 Suggestions and bug reporting:
diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index c4a347d..3d01514 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+Unreleased
+----------
+
+* Fix `Box.popitem()` to remove the most recently inserted item, matching `dict.popitem()`.
+
 Version 7.4.1
 -------------
 
diff --git a/box/box.py b/box/box.py
index 8252643..1acb685 100644
--- a/box/box.py
+++ b/box/box.py
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ def popitem(self):
         if self._box_config["frozen_box"]:
             raise BoxError("Box is frozen")
         try:
-            key = next(self.__iter__())
+            key = next(self.__reversed__())
         except StopIteration:
             raise BoxKeyError("Empty box") from None
         return key, self.pop(key)
diff --git a/test/test_box.py b/test/test_box.py
index e5c56e0..e5ccab3 100644
--- a/test/test_box.py
+++ b/test/test_box.py
@@ -882,7 +882,8 @@ def test_pop(self):
         assert bx.pop("c", True) is not True
 
     def test_pop_items(self):
-        bx = Box(a=4)
+        bx = Box(a=4, b=5)
+        assert bx.popitem() == ("b", 5)
         assert bx.popitem() == ("a", 4)
         with pytest.raises(BoxKeyError):
             assert bx.popitem()