How to extract the member from single-member set in python?

Question

I recently encountered a scenario in which if a set only contained a single element, I wanted to do something with that element. To get the element, I settled on this appro

Answer 1

I reckon kaizer.se's answer is great. But if your set might contain more than one element, and you want a not-so-arbitrary element, you might want to use min or max. E.g.:

element = min(myset)

or:

element = max(myset)

(Don't use sorted, because that has unnecessary overhead for this usage.)