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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Dictionary Views -- good examples?  [was Re: Python 3 dict question]
Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 21:09:09 +1200
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Ethan Furman wrote:
> Ian Kelly wrote:
> 
>> next(iter(myDict.items()))
> 
> Which is becoming less elegant.

If you're doing this sort of thing a lot you can make
a little helper function:

   def first(x):
     return next(iter(x))

then you get to say

   first(myDict.items())

-- 
Greg