On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 01:51:52AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Christopher Barker writes: > > > But last time, one of the use cases was "get [an arbitrary] item > > from a dict", and there really is not a terribly easy (and > > efficient) way to do that now. > > What's wrong with thedict.popitem()? Works in Python 2.7, BTW.
It removes the key and value, not just retrieve them. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/ZCEBLT2TD6VXBDIUM6XRIOQQ5CNVCA3P/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
