popkey() method for dictionaries?

[Erik Max Francis]

Fernando Pérez wrote:

> It could even be implemented as an extension to the existing popitem()
> method.
> Currently popitem() doesn't take any arguments, so the above 'key'
> argument
> could be made optional.
> 
> What do people think? Good/bad? Useless to most?

Seems like a reasonable extension, but I can't imagine it would come
into all that much use.

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