On 29/06/2020 18:42, Stestagg wrote:
Several times now, I've had the need to 'just get any key/value' from a large dictionary. I usually try first to run `var.keys()[0]` only to be told that I'm not allowed to do this, and instead have to ask python to make a copy of this datastructure with a different type, just so I can perform the index operation. This is possible, but seems redundant, and reinforces bad practices around creating copies of potentially large structures.
You can do >>> first_key = next(iter(my_dict.keys())) but I agree, it's not a particularly obvious way to proceed. -- Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd _______________________________________________ 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/NVLX4W4CUN3M2GY256VCAPPNNDKIH2MF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
