Remove last item using popitem() Dry Run in PYTHON

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Remove last item using popitem() Program Code

# Remove last item using popitem() (LIFO order)
data = {"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3, "d": 4, "e": 5}
print("Original:", data)

# popitem() removes and returns last inserted item
removed = data.popitem()
print(f"Removed: {removed}")
print("After first popitem():", data)

removed2 = data.popitem()
print(f"Removed: {removed2}")
print("After second popitem():", data)

# Continue popping
removed3 = data.popitem()
print(f"Removed: {removed3}")
print("After third popitem():", data)

# Empty dictionary popitem raises KeyError
empty = {}
try:
    empty.popitem()
except KeyError as e:
    print("\nError: Cannot popitem from empty dictionary")

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