Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > 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(). Hmm, but this can change if you modify the dictionary inside the loop or if you modify the dictionary from some other thread. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Consulting: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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