dmitrey <dmitre...@gmail.com> writes: > hi all, > suppose I have Python dict myDict and I know it's not empty. > I have to get any (key, value) pair from the dict (no matter which > one) and perform some operation. > In Python 2 I used mere > key, val = myDict.items()[0] > but in Python 3 myDict.items() return iterator. > Of course, I could use > for key, val in myDict.items(): > do_something > break > but maybe there is any better way?
key, val = next(iter(myDict.items())) http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/stdtypes.html#dictionary-view-objects HTH, Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list