Deleting dictionary items

[Carl Banks]

Will Newton <will at nospam.misconception.org.uk>,
exactly what drugs were you under the influence of when you wrote:
> 
> What's the best way to delete dictionary items?
> 
> I have a dictionary with tuples as keys, and I would like to delete all 
> keys with a certain element. First I wrote:
> 
>                 for item in td.data.keys():
>                         if item[attr] != value:
>                                 del td.data[item]
> 
> 
> But will this work?

Probably not.  This might work, though:

                for item in td.data.keys():
                        if item[attr] == value:
                                del td.data[item]


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CARL BANKS

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