Neat way of popping key, value PAIR from dictionary?

Question

pop is a great little function that, when used on dictionaries (given a known key) removes the item with that key from the dictionary and also returns the corre

Answer 1

here is a simpler implementation

class CustomDict(dict):
    def pop_item(self, key):
        popped = {key:self[key]} #save "snapshot" of the value of key before popping
        self.pop(key)
        return popped

a = CustomDict()
b = {"hello":"wassup", "lol":"meh"}
a.update(b)
print(a.pop_item("lol"))
print(a)

So here we create a custom dict that pops the item you want and gives out the key-value pair