Pull one attribute from a featureclass

QuangTruong

I am a beginner, and the following question will show why. 

I am trying to extract one value from a layer that has only one feature in it, but the only way I know how to do it takes three lines of code. There must be a better way, right? See the below code that I am using, and excuse the ignorance. 

# pull some attributes from the isolated feature
with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(fcTemp, 'ATTR') as pulllist:
    for pull in pulllist:
        var = pull[0]

DanPatterson_Retired

many ways... but just add these to your script

from datetime import datetime
from time import sleep
startTime = datetime.now()

sleep(0.5)  #  put your code here instead of sleep

print(datetime.now() - startTime)
0:00:00.510107