Silently removing key from a python dict [duplicate]

Question

I have a python dict and I'd like to silently remove either None and '' keys from my dictionary so I came up with something like this:

try:     del my_dict[None] except KeyError:     pass  try:     del my_dict[''] except KeyError:    pass 

As you see, it is less readable and it causes me to write duplicate code. So I want to know if there is a method in python to remove any key from a dict without throwing a key error?

Answer 1

You can do this:

d.pop("", None) d.pop(None, None) 

Pops dictionary with a default value that you ignore.