You can do the following: _,v = d.popitem()
Or: key, value = d.popitem() Steve On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 at 20:10, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > On 14/06/21 4:19 am, BlindAnagram wrote: > > Am I missing the obvious way to obtain the value (or the key) from a > > dictionary that is known to hold only one item? > > v = d.popitem()[1] > > > More importantly, is there a good reason why we don't have d.pop() for > > dictionaries? > > My guess is because it's not generally useful to get an arbitrary > value from a dict without its corresponding key. Hence the existence > of popitem(). > > -- > Greg > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
