.pop()
Published May 23, 2022
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The .pop()
method of a Python dictionary returns the value of a specified key, then removes the key-value pair from the dictionary.
Syntax
dictionary.pop(key)
Where key
is the key of the value to return and the entry to remove.
Codebyte Example
The following example creates a dictionary and “pops” a value from it:
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