On 15/06/2021 21.37, BlindAnagram wrote:
> On 15/06/2021 00:11, dn wrote:
>> On 15/06/2021 09.18, BlindAnagram wrote:
>>> On 14/06/2021 20:43, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 5:41 AM BlindAnagram
>> ...
> I think the difference here is that I know I am going to have to look at
>
On 15/06/2021 00:11, dn wrote:
On 15/06/2021 09.18, BlindAnagram wrote:
On 14/06/2021 20:43, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 5:41 AM BlindAnagram
...
No it isn't hard to use popitem() but it evidently proved hard for me to
remember that it was there.
If that's a problem, you'
On 15/06/2021 01:36, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 6/14/2021 5:18 PM, BlindAnagram wrote:
I believe that consistency in how methods common to different types
work is useful since it adds to the coherence of the language as a
whole and avoids the need to remember special cases.
Each collection class
On 14Jun2021 09:39, BlindAnagram wrote:
>However, d.pop(key, [default]) returns the value (or the default) and
>consistency with other pops (a good thing in my view) would suggest
>that d.pop() could return a random value, which would serve my purpose
>when there is only one element.
If you do
On 6/14/2021 5:18 PM, BlindAnagram wrote:
I believe that consistency in how methods common to different types work
is useful since it adds to the coherence of the language as a whole and
avoids the need to remember special cases.
Each collection class *is* a special case, and pop has to be ad
On 15/06/2021 09.18, BlindAnagram wrote:
> On 14/06/2021 20:43, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 5:41 AM BlindAnagram
...
> No it isn't hard to use popitem() but it evidently proved hard for me to
> remember that it was there.
If that's a problem, you're going to love using deques
On 14/06/2021 20:43, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 5:41 AM BlindAnagram wrote:
However, d.pop(key, [default]) returns the value (or the default) and
consistency with other pops (a good thing in my view) would suggest that
d.pop() could return a random value, which would serve my
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 5:41 AM BlindAnagram wrote:
> However, d.pop(key, [default]) returns the value (or the default) and
> consistency with other pops (a good thing in my view) would suggest that
> d.pop() could return a random value, which would serve my purpose when
> there is only one elemen
On 14/06/2021 08:29, Greg Ewing wrote:
On 14/06/21 4:19 am, BlindAnagram wrote:
Am I missing the obvious way to obtain the value (or the key) from a
dictionary that is known to hold only one item?
v = d.popitem()[1]
Thanks, Greg, I missed that.
More importantly, is there a good reason why
You can do the following:
_,v = d.popitem()
Or:
key, value = d.popitem()
Steve
On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 at 20:10, Greg Ewing
wrote:
> On 14/06/21 4:19 am, BlindAnagram wrote:
> > Am I missing the obvious way to obtain the value (or the key) from a
> > dictionary that is known to hold only one ite
On 14/06/21 4:19 am, BlindAnagram wrote:
Am I missing the obvious way to obtain the value (or the key) from a
dictionary that is known to hold only one item?
v = d.popitem()[1]
More importantly, is there a good reason why we don't have d.pop() for
dictionaries?
My guess is because it's not
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