> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Bryan <bryanjugglercryptograp...@yahoo.com> > To: python-l...@python.org > Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 23:59:29 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: Re: Iterating over dict and removing some elements > Terry Reedy wrote: > [...] >> for k in [k for k in d if d[k] == 'two']: >> d.pop(k) > > We have a winner. >
also foo = lambda k, d : d[k] == "two" d = dict([(k, d[k]) for k in d.keys() if not foo(k, d)]) incidentally, this is marginally slower than pops and dels but has the benefit of not modifying the original dict if that's what you need. Adi -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
