python syntax error with list filtering

Question

I'm trying to filter an item from a list, and I'm getting a syntax error: SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The code:

a['name'] = 'Dan'
b['name'] = 'Joe'

ppl = [a,b]
inputName = raw_input('Enter name:').strip()
person = [p in ppl if p['name']==inputName].pop()

any idea?

Answer 1

[item for item in array] not [item in array]

Answer 2

First of all, you should use dictionary instead of list if you want to use 'name' key. It should look like this

    a = {'name':'Dan'}
    b = {'name':'Joe'}
    ppl = [a,b]
    for p in ppl:
        if(p['name']==inputName):
            person=ppl.pop(ppl.index(p))

Maybe there is a better way, more pythonic, but this one working ;)