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Is there a one line way of doing the below?
myDict = {}
if 'key' in myDic:
del myDic['key']
thanks
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Use del to remove multiple keys from a dictionary Use a for-loop to iterate through a list of keys to remove. At each iteration, use the syntax del dict[key] to remove key from dict .
First, you need to convert the dictionary keys to a list using the list(dict. keys()) method. During each iteration, you can check if the value of a key is equal to the desired value. If it is True , you can issue the del statement to delete the key.
According to the python doc, you can indeed use the == operator on dictionaries.
You can write
myDict.pop(key, None)
Besides the pop method one can always explictly call the __delitem__ method - which does the same as del, but is done as expression rather than as an statement. Since it is an expression, it can be combined with the inline "if" (Python's version of the C ternary operator):
d = {1:2}
d.__delitem__(1) if 1 in d else None
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