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

you can use element = tuple(myset)[0] which is a bit more efficient, or, you can do something like

element = iter(myset).next()

I guess constructing an iterator is more efficient than constructing a tuple/list.