python - Destructuring-bind dictionary contents

Question

I am trying to 'destructure' a dictionary and associate values with variables names after its keys. Something like

params = {'a':1,'b':2}
a,b = params.values()

But since dictionaries are not ordered, there is no guarantee that params.values() will return values in the order of (a, b). Is there a nice way to do this?

Answer 1

from operator import itemgetter

params = {'a': 1, 'b': 2}

a, b = itemgetter('a', 'b')(params)

Instead of elaborate lambda functions or dictionary comprehension, may as well use a built in library.