Best way to extract an item from a set of len 1

[Rene Pijlman]

Peter Otten:
>>>> s = set(["one-and-only"])
>>>> item, = s
>>>> item
>'one-and-only'
>
>This works for any iterable and guarantees that it contains exactly one
>item. 

Nice!

>The comma may easily be missed, though.

You could write:

    (item,) = s

But I'm not sure if this introduces additional overhead.

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