Every now and then I have a container like [1] or Set(["foo"]), which contains only a single element and I want to extract it. Is there a function that does this somewhere? It should Throw an error, if the container is empty or has more then one element. only assume the iteration protocol, e.g. no…

Extract single element from container

kristoffer.carlsson February 21, 2018, 12:49pm 6

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