Assign contents of Python dict to multiple variables at once?

Question

I would like to do something like this

def f():
    return { \'a\' : 1, \'b\' : 2, \'c\' : 3 }

{ a, b } = f()     # or { \'a\', \'b\' } = f() ?

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Answer 1

mydict = {'aa':2, 'bb':'john', 'cc':34, 'dd':'bye'}

a, b, c, d = [mydict[k] for k in ['aa', 'bb', 'cc', 'dd']]