Behaviour of pop() for dictionaries

[Cameron Simpson]

On 14Jun2021 09:39, BlindAnagram <blindanagram at nowhere.org> wrote:
>However, d.pop(key, [default]) returns the value (or the default) and 
>consistency with other pops (a good thing in my view) would suggest 
>that d.pop() could return a random value, which would serve my purpose 
>when there is only one element.

If you don't care what key was popped, maybe you want a set and not a 
dict?

Just a thought.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>