On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 5:41 AM BlindAnagram <blindanag...@nowhere.org> wrote: > However, d.pop(key, [default]) returns the value (or the default) and > consistency with other pops (a good thing in my view) would suggest that > d.pop() could return a random value, which would serve my purpose when > there is only one element. >
Is this actually important or are you just looking for a meaningless "inconsistency"? Dictionaries are fundamentally different from lists. Is it really that hard to use popitem? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
