On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Tim Chase
<python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> >>> d = {"squib": "007"}
> >>> key, = d
> >>> key
> 'squib'
>
> I'd put a comment on the line to make it clear what's going on since
> that comma is easy to miss, but based on Alex Martelli's testing[2],
> it was the fastest of the proposed solutions.
>
As an alternative, you can spell the same thing with square brackets:
>>> d = {"squib": "007"}
>>> [key] = d
>>> key
'squib'
Might be easier to read than a loose comma.
ChrisA
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