[Python-ideas] Unpacking a dict

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/26/2016 1:09 AM, Michael Selik wrote:
> I agree that comprehensions plus tuple unpacking handle many possible
> use cases for dict unpacking.

There is another dict method that has been ignored in this discussion.

 >>> mapping = {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}
 >>> x = mapping.pop('a')
 >>> mapping
{'c': 3, 'b': 2}

We have both subscripting and popping to handle getting a value and 
either leaving or removing the pair.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy