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[Python-Dev] {}.getitem() (was Re: PEP-0218)

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> Just curious: how would you get at the deleted value when
> using .popfirstkey() ?
> 
> But you have a point: dict.pop() returning the first filled slot
> in the dictionary as tuple (key,value) would probably be most
> effective. It's also nice and short.

Nice!

> BTW, I don't get the inspiration for the "first" part in those
> names... it makes you think that there's an order to dictionary
> items when in reality there isn't.

Actually there is -- the (arbitrary) order revealed by .keys().

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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