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

There is also Extended Iterable Unpacking which will work on a singleton set or a mulit-element set

element, *_ = myset

Though some bristle at the use of a throwaway variable.