Tim Chase wrote: > When you have a set, known to be of length one, is there a "best" > ("most pythonic") way to retrieve that one item? >>> s = set(["one-and-only"]) >>> item, = s >>> item 'one-and-only'
This works for any iterable and guarantees that it contains exactly one item. The comma may easily be missed, though. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list