pop method question

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:55:16 -0300, Steven D'Aprano  
<steve at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au> escribió:

> I personally don't see that pop has any advantage, especially since the
> most useful example
>
> while some_dict:
>     do_something_with(some_dict.pop())
>
> doesn't work. Instead you have to write this:

For such constructs, one can use popitem:

while some_dict:
     do_something_with(some_dict.popitem()[1])

The popitem method is older than pop. I don't like pop either.

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Gabriel Genellina