On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:50 AM, Nick Mellor <thebalance...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a case in my code where I know a dictionary has only one item in it.
> I want to get the value of that item, whatever the key is.
>
> In Python2 I'd write:
>
>>>> d = {"Wilf's Cafe": 1}
>>>> d.values()[0]
> 1
>
> and that'd be an end to it.
>
> In Python 3:
>
>>>> d = {"Wilf's Cafe": 1}
>>>> d.values()[0]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: 'dict_values' object does not support indexing
> "Wilf's Cafe"
>>>> d[list(d)[0]]
> 1
You could try:
next(iter(d.values()))
but honestly, this isn't all that common a situation, so I'm not
surprised there's no really simple and clean way to do it.
ChrisA
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