Python 3 dict question

Chris Rebert clp2 at rebertia.com
Fri May 6 15:51:27 EDT 2011


On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:40 PM, dmitrey <dmitrey15 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all,
> suppose I have Python dict myDict and I know it's not empty.
> I have to get any (key, value) pair from the dict (no matter which
> one) and perform some operation.
> In Python 2 I used mere
> key, val = myDict.items()[0]
> but in Python 3 myDict.items() return iterator.
> Of course, I could use
> for key, val in myDict.items():
>   do_something
>   break
> but maybe there is any better way?

key, val = next(myDict.items())

Cheers,
Chris



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