RE: Popping key causes dict derived from object to revert to object

Loris wrote:

"Yes, I was mistakenly thinking that the popping the element would leave
me with the dict minus the popped key-value pair.  Seem like there is no
such function."

Others have tried to explain and pointed out you can del and then use the
changed dict.

But consider the odd concept of writing your own trivial function.

def remaining(adict, anitem):
  _ = adict.pop(anitem)
  # alternatively duse del on dict and item
  return adict

remaining({"first": 1, "second": 2, "third": 3}, "second")

{'first': 1, 'third': 3}


Or do you want to be able to call it as in dict.remaining(key) by
subclassing your own variant of dict and adding a similar method?