Pop out element in a Python dictionary

Return and remove element from dictionary

The pop method gets the value for corresponding key and removes the key value pair from the dictionary.

pop method has the following syntax.

adict.pop(k [, default])

Returns adict[k] if k in adict (and removes k); else, returns default.


d = {'x': 1, 'y': 2} 
print d.pop('x') 
print d 

The code above generates the following result.





















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