Extract key name from single element dictionary in Python

Question

If I know my dictionaries will always have a single element, is there a way to extract the key name without going through a list? I\'m currently doing it this way.

Answer 1

Use iterkeys:

data.iterkeys().next()
'foo'

Presuming you are using python 2

For python2 or python 3

k, = data.keys()
print (k)
'foo'