On 14/06/2021 20:43, Chris Angelico wrote:
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?
No I am not looking for meaningless inconsistency - just the opposite in
fact - meaningful consistency.
I believe that consistency in how methods common to different types work
is useful since it adds to the coherence of the language as a whole and
avoids the need to remember special cases.
No it isn't hard to use popitem() but it evidently proved hard for me to
remember that it was there.
Brian
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