diff --git a/airflow/providers/apache/hive/macros/hive.py b/airflow/providers/apache/hive/macros/hive.py
index 71e0661697735..24868f28addfc 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/apache/hive/macros/hive.py
+++ b/airflow/providers/apache/hive/macros/hive.py
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ def closest_ds_partition(
     partitions = hive_hook.get_partitions(schema=schema, table_name=table)
     if not partitions:
         return None
-    part_vals = [list(p.values())[0] for p in partitions]
+    part_vals = [next(iter(p.values())) for p in partitions]
     if ds in part_vals:
         return ds
     else: