How to extract dictionary single key-value pair in variables

Question

I have only a single key-value pair in a dictionary. I want to assign key to one variable and it\'s value to another variable. I have tried with below ways but I am getting

Answer 1

In Python 3:

Short answer:

[(k, v)] = d.items()

or:

(k, v) = list(d.items())[0]

or:

(k, v), = d.items()

Long answer:

d.items(), basically (but not actually) gives you a list with a tuple, which has 2 values, that will look like this when printed:

dict_items([('a', 1)])

You can convert it to the actual list by wrapping with list(), which will result in this value:

[('a', 1)]