On Sat, Oct 9, 2021, 10:44 PM Steven D'Aprano > Apart from a programming exercise and teaching moment, why would you want > to get a random key and value from a dict? In 25-ish years of using Python, > I think that the number of times I've needed to do that is zero. A random > item from a list, dozens of times. But from a dict, never. > (I'm not even convinced that dict.popitem is useful either. But maybe > that's just me, and others use it ten times a day.)
I've used dict.popitem() from time to time. Usually for the purpose of consuming items in a loop. But if I want to, I can put items back when I want to. I don't see a need for anything past that. On rare occasion, this is fine: somekey, someval = mydict.popitem() mydict[somekey] = someval do_stuff(somekey, someval)
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