Better: def clean(d): for key,val in d.items(): if isinstance(val, dict): val = clean(val) if val is None or val == {}: del d[key] return d
a = {1: {2: 2, 3: {1: None, 2: 2}}, 2: 2, 3: None} print clean(a) # Out: {1: {2: 2, 3: {2: 2}}, 2: 2} b = {1: {1: {1: None, 2: {1: None}}}, 2: 2, 3: None} print clean(b) # Out: {2: 2} c = {1: {1: {1: None, 2: {1: None}}}, 2: 2, 3: 0} print clean(c) # Out: {2: 2, 3: 0} -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list