On Oct 26, 11:29 pm, Frank Stutzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My apologies in advance, I'm new to python > > Say, I have a dictionary that looks like this: > > record={'BAT': '14.4', 'USD': '24', 'DIF': '45', 'OAT': '16', > 'FF': '3.9', 'C3': '343', 'E4': '1157', 'C1': '339', > 'E6': '1182', 'RPM': '996', 'C6': '311', 'C5': '300', > 'C4': '349', 'CLD': '0', 'E5': '1148', 'C2': '329', > 'MAP': '15', 'OIL': '167', 'HP': '19', 'E1': '1137', > 'MARK': '', 'E3': '1163', 'TIME': '15:43:54', > 'E2': '1169'} > > From this dictionary I would like to create another dictionary calld > 'egt') that has all of the keys that start with the letter 'E'. In > otherwords it should look like this: > > egt = {'E6': '1182','E1': '1137','E4': '1157','E5': '1148', > 'E2': '1169','E3': '1163'} > > This should be pretty easy, but somehow with all my googling I've > not found a hint. > > Thanks in advance > > -- > Frank Stutzman
I think this should do the trick. There's probably something more concise than this, but I can't think of it at the moment. egt = {} for key in record: if key.startswith('E'): egt[key] = record[key] print egt {'E5': '1148', 'E4': '1157', 'E6': '1182', 'E1': '1137', 'E3': '1163', 'E2': '1169'} -Edward Kozlowski -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list