How to return dictionary keys as a list in Python?

Question

In Python 2.7, I could get dictionary keys, values, or items as a list:

>>> newdict = {1:0, 2:0, 3:0}
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Answer 1

If you need to store the keys separately, here's a solution that requires less typing than every other solution presented thus far, using Extended Iterable Unpacking (python3.x+).

newdict = {1: 0, 2: 0, 3: 0}
*k, = newdict

k
# [1, 2, 3]

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            │ k = list(d)   │   9 characters (excluding whitespace)   │
            ├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤
            │ k = [*d]      │   6 characters                          │
            ├───────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤
            │ *k, = d       │   5 characters                          │
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