subscripting Python 3 dicts/getting the only value in a Python 3 dict

[Bernardo Sulzbach]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 06:12 am, Bernardo Sulzbach wrote:
>
>> I saw it in another answer. next(iter(d)) is still the winner.
>
> Except that doesn't return the *value*, it returns the *key*.
>

There is a typo, sorry. I assume that what is passed to iter is a
dict_values object.

>> This resembles a list just too much, making the coder's intent harder
>> to understand. This is **very** subjective, of course.
>
> I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean by "resembles a list"? What
> does? In what way?
>

[a] = d.values()  resembles a list too much to my eyes.

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Bernardo Sulzbach