{"id":4078,"date":"2023-02-22T03:50:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T03:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/difference-between-pop-and-popitem-in-dictionary\/"},"modified":"2023-02-22T03:50:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T03:50:40","slug":"difference-between-pop-and-popitem-in-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/difference-between-pop-and-popitem-in-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference between pop() and popitem () in dictionary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-12 messageContent\">\n <b>Learning Goal: <\/b>I&#8217;m working on a python question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.<\/p>\n<p>Although we use pop() and popitem() to remove elements from a dictionary, they are actually<\/p>\n<p>different. pop() can remove any item from a dictionary as long as you specify the key. On the other<\/p>\n<p>hand, popitem() can only remove and return the value of the last element in the dictionary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning Goal: I&#8217;m working on a python question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn. Although we use pop() and popitem() to remove elements from a dictionary, they are actually different. pop() can remove any item from a dictionary as long as you specify the key. On the other hand, popitem() can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[734],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/4078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/4078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}