Access an arbitrary element in a dictionary in Python

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On Python 3, non-destructively and iteratively:

next(iter(mydict.values()))

On Python 2, non-destructively and iteratively:

mydict.itervalues().next()

If you want it to work in both Python 2 and 3, you can use the six package:

six.next(six.itervalues(mydict))

though at this point it is quite cryptic and I’d rather prefer your code.

If you want to remove any item, do:

key, value = mydict.popitem()

Note that “first” may not be an appropriate term here because dict is not an ordered type in Python < 3.6. Python 3.6+ dicts are ordered.

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