splitting one dictionary into two
wes weston
wweston at att.net
Thu Apr 1 11:42:57 EST 2004
jsaul wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have to split a dict into two dicts. Depending on their values,
> the items shall remain in the original dict or be moved to another
> one and at the same time be removed from the original dict.
>
> OK, this is how I do it right now:
>
> dict1 = { "a":1, "b":3, "c":5, "d":4, "e":2 }
> dict2 = {}
> klist = []
>
> for key in dict1:
> if dict1[key] > 3: # some criterion
> dict2[key] = dict1[key]
> klist.append(key)
>
> for key in klist:
> del dict1[key]
>
> print dict1
> print dict2
>
> That means that I store the keys of the items to be removed from
> the original dict in a list (klist) and subsequently remove the
> items using these keys.
>
> Is there an "even more pythonic" way?
>
> Cheers, jsaul
jsaul,
I'll have a hack with small code. Nice that you can
iterate while removing.
wes
dict1 = { "a":1, "b":3, "c":5, "d":4, "e":2 }
dict2 = {}
print dict1
for key,val in dict1.items():
if val > 3: # some criterion
dict2[key] = val
del dict1[key]
print dict1
print dict2
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